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Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing

By Dora Apel

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0813530490, 9780813530499
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19518430 bytes)
Pages
241\264
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2023-11-20 02:40:35

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.

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