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At Memory's Edge After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

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ISBN-10: 0300094132

ISBN-13: 9780300094138

Edition: 2002

Authors: James E. Young

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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? Young - the only foreigner and Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial - tells the inside story of this project.
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.70" wide x 0.93" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Art Spiegelman's Maus and the After-Images of History
David Levinthal's Mein Kampf: History, Toys, and the Play of Memory
Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie's Acts of Remembrance, 1991-1996
Memory, Countermemory, and the End of the Monument: Horst Hoheisel, Micha Ullman, Rachel Whiteread, and Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock
Memory Against Itself in Germany Today: Jochen Gerz's Countermonuments
Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin: The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture
Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem - and Mine
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index