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At Memory's Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture | 
 enlarge | Author: James E. Young
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 519203
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0300094132
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9780300094138
ASIN: 0300094132
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
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IAt Memory's Edge/I is an ambitious and provocative collection of essays with topics ranging from Art Spiegelman's IMaus/I books to, most notably, the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. Author James E. Young, an American professor of English and Judaic Studies, was the only foreigner and the only Jew on the committee that selected the design for the German memorial. His behind-the-scenes account of this project's development offers sophisticated answers to some very difficult questions. Young doggedly asks how Berlin can remember a group of people who are no longer at home there, and how Germany can--or should--remember the extermination of Jews once committed in that nation's name. The author's answers to such questions may appear excessively dogmatic to some readers. Early in the book, for example, Young asserts that "memory-work about the Holocaust cannot, must not, be redemptive in any fashion." But his rationale for such sweeping pronouncements is very persuasive. The book is also lavishly illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings that will be a great value to readers who accept the challenge that Young has assumed: "the task of contemplating how to understand a formative historical tragedy of which first-hand memory is rapidly fading." I--Michael Joseph Gross/I
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How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? James E. Young, the only foreigner and the only Jew to serve on the German commission to select a design for a national Holocaust memorial, tells the inside story of this enormously controversial project. Young also inquires deeply into the moral and aesthetic questions surrounding artistic representations of the Holocaust produced by young artists who themselves did not experience it.
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