Title & Author:

Impossible images : contemporary art after the Holocaust / edited by Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein.

Publication:

New York : New York University Press, ©2003.

Description:

x, 285 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

New perspectives on Jewish studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Framing the Holocaust : contemporary visions / Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt, and Laurence J. Silberstein -- Archiving an architecture of the heart / Shelley Hornstein -- Haunted by memory : American Jewish transformations / Michelle A. Friedman -- A house for an uninhabitable memory (The Center for Holocaust Studies at Clark University) / Julian Bonder -- The return of the repressed / Ariella Azoulay -- Racism and ethics : constructing alternative history / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- "Don't touch my Holocaust" : analyzing the barometer of responses : Israeli artists challenge the Holocaust taboo / Tami Katz-Freiman -- Holocaust toys : pedagogy of remembrance through play / Ernst van Alphen -- The Nazi occupation of the "white cube" : Piotr Uklański's The Nazis and Rudolf Herz's Zugzwang / Norman L. Kleeblatt -- On sanctifying the Holocaust : an anti-theological treatise / Adi Ophir -- Holocaust icons : the media of memory / Oren Baruch Stier -- Sense and/or sensation : the role of the body in Holocaust pedagogy / Susan Derwin -- Artists' works : a selection of works by artists Alice Lok Cahana, Judy Chicago, Debbie Teicholz, and Mindy Weisel, who participated in the Berman Center's conference, "Representing the Holocaust : practices, products, projections."

Summary:

'Impossible Images' brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

081479825X (alk. paper)
9780814798256 (alk. paper)
0814798268 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780814798263 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, et art.
Art 20e siècle.
Art, Modern
Judenvernichtung
Kunst
Shoah Dans l'art.
Judenvernichtung <Motiv>

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Hornstein, Shelley.
Levitt, Laura, 1960-
Silberstein, Laurence J. (Laurence Jay), 1936-
New perspectives on Jewish studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230231
Call No.: NX163 .I46 2003
Status: Available