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Author Apel, Dora, 1952-

Title Memory effects : the holocaust and the art of secondary witnessing / Dora Apel.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  704.9499 Ap22m 2002    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 241 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-233) and index.
Contents The artist as secondary witness -- A short history of Holocaust reception -- Picturing the vanished/transgressing the present -- The reinvention of memory -- Appropriating the testimonial form -- Landscape and the search for memory -- Fetishized Nazism and erotic fantasy -- The tattooed Jew.
Summary Publisher's description: Dora Apel analyzes the ways in which artists born after the Holocaust--whom she calls secondary witnesses--represent a history they did not experience first hand. She demonstrates that contemporary artists confront these atrocities in order to bear witness not to the Holocaust directly, but to its "memory effects" and to the implications of those effects for the present and future. Drawing on projects that employ a variety of unorthodox artistic strategies, the author provides a unique understanding of contemporary representations of the Holocaust. She demonstrates how these artists frame the past within the conditions of the present, the subversive use of documentary and the archive, the effects of the Jewish genocide on issues of difference and identity, and the use of representation as a form of resistance to historical closure.
Subject Jewish art.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
ISBN 0813530482 (alk. paper)
9780813530482 (alk. paper)
0813530490 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813530499 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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