Synopses & Reviews
How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young -- the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial -- tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding artistic representations of the Holocaust produced by young artists who themselves did not experience it.
Table of Contents
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 Rememberance, 1991-1996 -- Memory, countermenory, and the end 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.