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Absence / Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust

Absence / Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust

Feinstein, Stephen C.

Hardcover

Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust

Art Criticism & TheoryGeneral Art

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ISBN10: 0815630832
ISBN13: 9780815630838
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Aug 11 2005
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event of the twentieth century, if not in Western Civilization itself, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. As it analyzes a cross section of Holocaust art within the context of art history, Absence / Presence addresses the discussion head on and explores the interchange between media and horror. The book's contributors include case studies from a broad spectrum of artists in North America, Europe, and Israel to examine some of the more dominant themes in these artists' work. In addition to standard readings of Holocaust art, the essays help illuminate the issues of eugenics; the importance of art for Hitler and the Nazis; the immense pilfering of art that occurred during World War II; and the length and degree of the destruction of European Jewry, which forced artists to reinvent their work through their own fate.

This selection of essays also provides alternative views to more typical readings on the Holocaust, specifically,

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