The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum
Title | The Memorial Ethics of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum PDF eBook |
Author | Arleen Ionescu |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2017-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137538317 |
This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind’s Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context. Emphasizing how the Holocaust changed our perception of history, memory, witnessing and representation, it develops the notion of ‘memorial ethics’ to explore the Museum’s difference from more conventional post-World War Two commemorative sites. The main focus is on the Museum as an experience of the materiality of trauma which engages the visitor in a performative duty to remember. Arleen Ionescu builds on Levinas’s idea of ‘ethics as optics’ to show how Libeskind’s Museum becomes a testimony to the unpresentable Other. Ionescu also extends the Museum’s experiential dimension by proposing her own subjective walk through Libeskind’s space reimagined as a ‘literary museum’. Featuring reflections on texts by Beckett, Celan, Derrida, Kafka, Blanchot, Wiesel and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (Celan’s cousin), this virtual tour concludes with a brief account of Libeskind’s analogous ‘healing project’ for Ground Zero.
Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin
Title | Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | W. Michael Blumenthal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites
Title | Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Dalton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2019-08-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1351599615 |
Encountering Nazi Tourism Sites explores how the terrible legacy of Nazi criminality is experienced by tourists, bridging the gap between cultural criminology and tourism studies to make a significant contribution to our understanding of how Nazi criminality is evoked and invoked in the landscape of modern Germany. This study is grounded in fieldwork encounters with memorials, museums and perpetrator sites across Germany and the Netherlands, including Berlin Holocaust memorials and museums, the Anne Frank House, the Wannsee House, Wewelsburg Castle and concentration camps. At the core of this research is a respect for each site’s unique physical, architectural or curatorial form and how this enables insights into different aspects of the Holocaust. Chapters grapple with themes of authenticity, empathy, voyeurism and vicarious experience to better comprehend the possibilities and limits of affective encounters at these sites. This will be of great interest to upper level students and researchers of criminology, Holocaust studies, museology, tourism studies, memorialisation studies and the burgeoning field of ‘difficult’ heritage.
Holocaust Commemoration and the Creation of Living Memory: how the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Assert the Past in the Fabric of the Present
Title | Holocaust Commemoration and the Creation of Living Memory: how the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Assert the Past in the Fabric of the Present PDF eBook |
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Release | 2004 |
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Arts of Healing
Title | Arts of Healing PDF eBook |
Author | Arleen Ionescu |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2020-06-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1786610981 |
This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, acts of forgiveness and contemporary forms of trauma. The book proposes new ways of 'thinking trauma', foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible? What has become known as the 'classical model of trauma' has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and 'iconic' forms of communication are part of the arts of healing.
Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin
Title | Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum of Berlin PDF eBook |
Author | Werner Michael Blumenthal |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
At Memory's Edge
Title | At Memory's Edge PDF eBook |
Author | James Edward Young |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300094138 |
How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in World War II. As the only foreigner and only Jew on the panel, Young gained a unique perspective on Germany's fraught efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. In this book, he tells for the first time the inside story of Germany's national Holocaust memorial and his own role in it. In exploring Germany's memorial crisis, Young also asks the more general question of how a generation of contemporary artists can remember an event like the Holocaust, which it never knew directly. Young examines the works of a number of vanguard artists in America and Europe--including Art Spiegelman, Shimon Attie, David Levinthal, and Rachel Whiteread--all born after the Holocaust but indelibly shaped by its memory as passed down through memoirs, film, photographs, and museums. In the context of the moral and aesthetic questions raised by these avant-garde projects, Young offers fascinating insights into the controversy surrounding Berlin's newly opened Jewish museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, as well as Germany's soon-to-be-built national Holocaust memorial, designed by Peter Eisenman. Illustrated with striking images in color and black-and-white, At Memory's Edge is the first book in any language to chronicle these projects and to show how we remember the Holocaust in the after-images of its history.