Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing

by Dora Apel

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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,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813530490

ISBN13:9780813530499

Release Date:June 2002

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 7.1" x 9.9"

Related Subjects

Art Arts, Music & Photography History History & Criticism Religious Themes World

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