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Book SynopsisIn The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, articulate a variety of cultural, religious and political implications of the visualization of Jerusalem. This collection of essays calls attention to two axes emerging from the study of Jerusalem in art: on the one hand, the volatile contemporary situation, and on the other hand, the abiding chain of meanings that history imparts to the city. From a contemporary perspective and within a broad historical context, the book discusses in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings providing new insights into memory processes and mechanisms of representation of Jerusalem.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction – Recollection in Patches Part 1 - Competing Memories and Contrasting Meanings 1 Sites and Senses: Mapping Palestinian Territories in Mona Hatoum’s Sculpture Present Tense Anneke Schulenberg 2 The Green Line: Potency, Absurdity, and Disruption of Dichotomy in Francis Alÿs’s Intervention in Jerusalem Mette Gieskes 3 Jerusalem as Trauerarbeit: On Two Paintings by Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter Wouter Weijers 4 Ezekiel for Solomon: The Temple of Jerusalem in Seventeenth-century Leiden and the Case of Cocceius Jeroen Goudeau 5 Jerusalem as Palimpsest: The Architectural Footprint of the Crusaders in the Contemporary City Mariëtte Verhoeven 6 Translations of the Sacred City between Jerusalem and Rome Sible de Blaauw Part 2 - Imitation and Translocation 7 The Reconquered Jerusalem Represented: Tradition and Renewal on Pilgrimage Ampullae from the Crusader Period Katja Boertjes 8 ‘As if they had physically visited the holy places’: Two Sixteenth-century Manuscripts Guide a Mental Journey through Jerusalem (Radboud University Library, Mss 205 and 233) Hanneke van Asperen 9 Jerusalem in Renaissance Italy: The Holy Sepulchre on the Sacro Monte of Varallo Bram de Klerck 10 Overdetermination of a Heavenly Jerusalem: Contemporary Windows by Gérard Garouste and Jean-Michel Alberola Daan Van Speybroeck 11 ‘You want to take us to Jerusalem …’: Medinat Weimar: A Second Jerusalem in Contemporary Visual Arts and Klezmer Songs Rudie van Leeuwen Index
