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Young, James Edward,

At memory's edge : after-images of the Holocaust in contemporary art and architecture / James E. Young. - 248 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 remembrance, 1991-1996 -- Memory, countermemory, and 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.

ISBN: 0300080328 9780300080322 0300094132 9780300094138

LCCN: 00100482

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture--Germany
Symbolism in architecture
Deconstructivism (Architecture)--Germany
Holocaust memorials--Germany
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
Holocaust memorials--History--Germany
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence

LC Class. No.: NA9330.G4 / Y68 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 704.9499405318