At memory's edge: after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture
TitelAt memory's edge: after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0065
Objectnummer03982
Plaats van uitgaveNew Haven, Connecticut, United States
UitgeverYale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2000
Pagina's248p.,index,bibliography
MateriaalBoek
ISBN0300080328
Beschrijving
Tells the inside story of Germany's national Holocaust memorial, asks how a generation of contemporary artists can remember an event like the Holocaust and examines the works of a number of vanguard artists in America and Europe( Art Spiegelman, Shimon Attie, David Levinthal amd Rachel Whiteread). Offers fascinating insights into the controversy surrounding Berlin's newly opened Jewish Museum designed by Daniel Libeskind as well as the national Holocaust memorial designed by Peter Eisenman