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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153232603321

Autore

Young James Edward

Titolo

The Stages of Memory : Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between / / James E. Young

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2016

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61376-493-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Collana

Public history in historical perspective

Disciplina

394/.4

Soggetti

Loss (Psychology) in art

Memorials - Social aspects

Memorialization - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. The memorial's vernacular arc between Berlin's Denkmal and New York City's 9/11 Memorial -- The stages of memory at Ground Zero: the National 9/11 Memorial process -- Daniel Libeskind and the houses of Jewish memory: what is Jewish architecture? -- Regarding the pain of women: gender and the arts of holocaust memory -- The terrible beauty of Nazi aesthetics -- Looking into the mirrors of evil: Nazi imagery in contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York -- The contemporary arts of memory in the works of Esther Shalev-Gerz, Miroslaw Balka, Tobi Kahn, and Komar and Melamid -- Utoya and Norway's July 22 memorial: the memory of political terror.