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Image and Remembrance Representation and the Holocaust

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ISBN-10: 0253215692

ISBN-13: 9780253215697

Edition: 2002

Authors: Shelley Hornstein, Florence Jacobowitz

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This work demonstrates that artistic representations are central to the practice of remembrance and commemoration. Including essays on representations of the Holocaust, it considers ways in which visual artists have given form to the experience of the Holocaust.
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Shelley Hornstein is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, York University, Toronto. She is co-editor of Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art.Florence Jacobowitz teaches film studies at York University and is a founding editor and regular contributor to Cin�Action magazine.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Commemoration and Sites of Mourning
Shoah as Cinema
Second-Sight: Shimon Attie's Recollection
Rituals of Mourning and Mimesis: Arie A. Galles's Fourteen Stations
Trauma
Memory, Counter-Memory, and the End of the Monument
Personal Responses and Familial Legacies
Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art
Caught by Images: Visual Imprints in Holocaust Testimonies
Gays and the Holocaust: Two Documentaries
War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect
Memento Mori: Atrocity and Aesthetics
The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art
Burnt Books and Absent Meaning: Morris Louis's Charred Journal: Firewritten Series and the Holocaust
Emblems of Atrocity: Holocaust Liberation Photographs
The Uses and Abuses of Photography in Holocaust-Related Art
National Expressions of Remembrance
The Jewish Museum, Vienna: A Holographic Paradigm for History and the Holocaust
Memory Block: Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Memorial in Vienna
Turning the Places of Holocaust History into Places of Holocaust Memory: Holocaust Memorials in Budapest, Hungary, 1945-95
Berlin Elegies: Absence, Postmemory, and Art after Auschwitz
Invisible Topographies: Looking for the Memorial de la deportation in Paris
Contributors
Index