Main entry:

Young, James Edward.

Title & Author:

At memory's edge : after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture / James E. Young.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000.

Description:

248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
German.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in World War II. As the only foreigner and only Jew on the panel, Young gained a unique perspective on Germany's fraught efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. In this book, he tells for the first time the inside story of Germany's national Holocaust memorial and his own role in it." "In exploring Germany's memorial crisis, Young also asks the more general question of how a generation of contemporary artists can remember an event like the Holocaust, which it never knew directly."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300080328 (alk. paper)
9780300080322 (alk. paper)
9780300094138
0300094132

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture Germany.
Symbolism in architecture.
Deconstructivism (Architecture) Germany.
Holocaust memorials Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, et architecture Allemagne.
Symbolisme en architecture.
Déconstructivisme (Architecture) Allemagne.
Monuments de l'Holocauste Allemagne.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, et art.
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
Holocaust memorials.
Beeldende kunsten.
Bouwkunst.
Holocaust.
Gedachtenis.
Symbolism in architecture Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Jewish museums
Germany.
History
Jews
Memorials
Architecture
Art

Form/genre:

Jewish museums.
war memorials.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210746
Call No.: NX650.H57 Y6 2000
Status: Available