TY  - BOOK
AU  - Azoulay,Ariella
TI  - Death's showcase: the power of image in contemporary democracy 
SN  - 0262011824
AV  - NX650.D4. A99 2001
U1  - 306.90904 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Death in art
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Artists and museums
KW  - Arts, Israeli
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Postmodernism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-294) and index; Ch. 1; Introduction: On the Work of Death in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction --; Ch. 2; [Death's] Display Showcase: Walter Benjamin --; Ch. 3; The [Aesthetic] Distance: Benjamin and Heidegger --; Ch. 4; The [Spectator's] Place: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun --; Ch. 5; The [Blind] Gesture: Hiroshima --; Ch. 6; [Critical] Image --; Ch. 7; The [Simulated] City: Jerusalem --; Ch. 8; The Floodlit Arena [of Murder]: Yitzhak Rabin --; Ch. 9; Save As Jerusalems --; Ch. 10; The Picture [of the Battlefield] --; Ch. 11; [Art] Museum
N2  - "This is a book about the public display of death in contemporary culture. It consists of a series of essays on specific cases in which death is displayed in museums and in photography. The essays focus mainly on representations of violence and death in events in recent Israeli history, including the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian Intifada, and on the visual presence of traumatic events in Israeli culture throughout the twentieth century. They show how images of these events both shape and aestheticize the viewer's experience of death."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -