Image and Remembrance
Subtitle: Representation and the Holocaust
Contributors: Shelley Hornstein (Editor); Florence Jacobowitz (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780253341884
Subjects: Iconography, subjects depicted in art; The Holocaust; 20th Century Art; Jewish Holocaust; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History: World; Europe; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Essays; Subjects & Themes - General; Fine Arts; History - General; Holocaust; 20th century; Arts; Arts, Modern; Holocaust, 1933-1945 in art; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945),; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
First sentence: This collection of essays on art and the Holocaust began as a commemorative endeavor based on the belief that a collection of critical writing can itself be a form of memorialization.
Table of contents: title: Shoah as cinema / Florence Jacobowitz; title: Second-sight : Shimon Attie's recollection / Berel Lang; title: Rituals of mourning and mimesis : Arie A. Galles's Fourteen Stations / Andrea Liss; title: Trauma / Daniel Libeskind; title: Memory, counter-memory, and the end of the monument / James Young; title: Material memory : Holocaust testimony in post-Holocaust art / Marianne Hirsch and Susan Rubin Suleiman; title: Caught by images : visual imprints in Holocaust testimonies / Ernst van Alphen; title: Gays and the Holocaust : two documentaries / Robin Wood; title: War stories : witnessing in retrospect / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer; title: The iconic and the allusive : the case for beauty in post-Holocaust art / Janet Wolff; title: Burnt books and absent meaning : Morris Louis's Charred Journal : Firewritten series and the Holocaust / Mark Godfrey; title: Emblems of atrocity : Holocaust liberation photographs / Carol Zemel; title: The uses and abuses of photography in Holocaust-related art / Monica Bohm-Duchen; title: The Jewish Museum, Vienna : a holographic paradigm for history and the Holocaust / Reesa Greenberg; title: Memory block : Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust memorial in Vienna / Rebecca Comay; title: Turning the places of Holocaust history into places of Holocaust memory : Holocaust memorials in Budapest, Hungary, 1945-95 / Tim Cole; title: Berlin elegies : absence, postmemory, and art after Auschwitz / Leslie Morris; title: Invisible topographies : looking for the Mémorial de la déportation in Paris / Shelley Hornstein