Constructing Memory : Architectural Narratives of Holocaust Museums / Stephanie Shosh Rotem.

Main entry:

Rotem, Stephanie Shosh.

Title & Author:

Constructing Memory : Architectural Narratives of Holocaust Museums / Stephanie Shosh Rotem.

Publication:

Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
©2013

Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
From ashes to life : Holocaust museums in Israel -- You are my withnesses (Isaiah 43:10) : Holocaust museums in the United States -- The memory void : Holocaust museums in Europe.

Summary:

This book reveals the critical role of architecture in the assimilation of the ideologies and values conveyed at Holocaust museums around the world. Through the architectural analysis of sixteen museums, social, cultural and political agendas will be unfolded. While the distance in time and place raises the need to create innovative forms of display to reach an audience removed from the Holocaust, the degree to which this can be done by the museums' exhibits alone is limited. This book shows that architecture, as an abstract form of expression, plays a major role in the conception of Holocaust museums. By conveying values that cannot otherwise be expressed, the museums' architecture becomes integral to its narrative and, through it, to the construction of collective memories of the Holocaust.

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ISBN:

9783034312431
3034312431
(eBook)
9780035105575

Subject:

Museum architecture.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Museums.
Architecture and society.
Architecture des musées.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 Musées.
Architecture et société.
museums (buildings)
Museums.
Museumsbau
Judenvernichtung
Museibyggnader.
Arkitektur.
Förintelsen.
Arkitektur och samhälle.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290133
Call No.: BIB 232939
Status: Available

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