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The passage of time and the reality of an aging survivor population have made it increasingly urgent to document and give expression to testimony, experience, and memory of the Holocaust. This title demonstrates that artistic representations are central to the practice of remembrance and commemoration.

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"This comprehensive collection of essays on art and the Holocaust... [is] a valuable volume." -Jewish Book World

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Introduction Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz

PART ONE: COMMEMORATION AND SITES OF MOURNING
1. Shoah as Cinema Florence Jacobowitz
2. Second-Sight: Shimon Attie's Recollection Berel Lang
3. Rituals of Mourning and Mimesis: Arie A. Galles's Fourteen Stations Andrea Liss
4. Trauma Daniel Libeskind
5. Memory, Counter-memory, and the End of the Monument James Young

PART TWO: PERSONAL RESPONSES AND FAMILIAL LEGACIES
6. Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art Marianne Hirsch and Susan Rubin Suleiman
7. Caught by Images: Visual Imprints in Holocaust Testimonies Ernst Van Alphen
8. Gays and the Holocaust: Two Documentaries Robin Wood
9. War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

PART THREE: MEMENTO MORI: ATROCITY AND AESTHETICS
10. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art Janet Wolff
11. Burnt Books and Absent Meaning: Morris Louis' Charred Journal: Firewritten Series and the Holocaust Mark Godfrey
12. Emblems of Atrocity: Holocaust Liberation Photographs Carol Zemel
13. The Uses and Abuses of Photography in Holocaust-Related Art Monica Bohm-Duchen

PART FOUR: NATIONAL EXPRESSIONS OF REMEMBRANCE
14. The Jewish Museum, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust Reesa Greenberg
15. Memory Block: Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna Rebecca Comay
16. Turning the Places of Holocaust History into Places of Holocaust Memory: Holocaust Memorials in Budapest, Hungary 1945-1995 Tim Cole
17. Berlin Elegies: Absence, Postmemory, and Art after Auschwitz Leslie Morris
18. Invisible Topographies: Looking for the Mémorial de la Déportation in Paris Shelley Hornstein

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 17/12/2002
      ISBN13: 9780253215697, 978-0253215697
      ISBN10: 0253215692
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The passage of time and the reality of an aging survivor population have made it increasingly urgent to document and give expression to testimony, experience, and memory of the Holocaust. This title demonstrates that artistic representations are central to the practice of remembrance and commemoration.

      Trade Review
      "This comprehensive collection of essays on art and the Holocaust... [is] a valuable volume." -Jewish Book World

      Table of Contents

      Introduction Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz

      PART ONE: COMMEMORATION AND SITES OF MOURNING
      1. Shoah as Cinema Florence Jacobowitz
      2. Second-Sight: Shimon Attie's Recollection Berel Lang
      3. Rituals of Mourning and Mimesis: Arie A. Galles's Fourteen Stations Andrea Liss
      4. Trauma Daniel Libeskind
      5. Memory, Counter-memory, and the End of the Monument James Young

      PART TWO: PERSONAL RESPONSES AND FAMILIAL LEGACIES
      6. Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art Marianne Hirsch and Susan Rubin Suleiman
      7. Caught by Images: Visual Imprints in Holocaust Testimonies Ernst Van Alphen
      8. Gays and the Holocaust: Two Documentaries Robin Wood
      9. War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

      PART THREE: MEMENTO MORI: ATROCITY AND AESTHETICS
      10. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art Janet Wolff
      11. Burnt Books and Absent Meaning: Morris Louis' Charred Journal: Firewritten Series and the Holocaust Mark Godfrey
      12. Emblems of Atrocity: Holocaust Liberation Photographs Carol Zemel
      13. The Uses and Abuses of Photography in Holocaust-Related Art Monica Bohm-Duchen

      PART FOUR: NATIONAL EXPRESSIONS OF REMEMBRANCE
      14. The Jewish Museum, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust Reesa Greenberg
      15. Memory Block: Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna Rebecca Comay
      16. Turning the Places of Holocaust History into Places of Holocaust Memory: Holocaust Memorials in Budapest, Hungary 1945-1995 Tim Cole
      17. Berlin Elegies: Absence, Postmemory, and Art after Auschwitz Leslie Morris
      18. Invisible Topographies: Looking for the Mémorial de la Déportation in Paris Shelley Hornstein

      Contributors
      Index

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