Description
Book SynopsisSince the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work.
Table of Contents
- "Picturing Death: Better This than Silence," Robert Poor
- ""Porbing the Limits of the Politics of Representation,"" Jeremy Varon
- ""After Auschwitz: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later,"" Monica Bohm-Duchen
- ""Jewish Artists in New York: The 1940s,"" Matthews Baigell
- ""From the Sublime to the Abject: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later,"" Andrew Weinstein
- ""R.B. Kitaj's 'Good Bad' Diasporism and the Body in American Jewish Postmodern Art,"" Sander Gilman
- ""Bak's Variations on a Theme by Bak,"" Lawrence Langer
- ""Toward a Post-Holocaust Theology in Art: The Search for the Absent and Present God,"" Stephen Feinstein
- ""How to Remember,"" Nancy Weston
- ""Disaster Art: A Plea Against the Peripheral Stuff,"" Pier Marton
- ""Conversations with Rzeszow: An Artist's Journey,"" Joyce Lyon
- ""Haunting the Empty Place,"" Ziva Amishai-Maisels
