At Memory's Edge

After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture

By: James E. Young

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Paperback | 8 February 2002 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"The brilliance of James Young's theoretical insights is matched by his outstanding knowledge of the vast array of representations of the Shoah and by his artistic and literary sensitivity. At Memory's Edge will become an influential book." Saul Friedlander "Young's book needs no extra boost, and yet this recent debate over the meaning of German nationalism gives his subject another dimension of topicality, proving again how accurately discussions of art can pinpoint all that's buried just beneath the surface of everyday life." Robert Leiter, New York Times Book Review "A beautifully written and illustrated book that tells us something profound about the featured artistic projects and their contexts." Natasha Lehrer, Jewish Quarterly "This book provides for further study of the nature and meanings of memory, and on the way contemporary artists contribute to the broad and growing discussion of what memory is." Jay Winter, Art Bulletin

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Geonocide & Ethnic Cleansing The Holocaust Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1900 to Current Architecture Civic & Public Buildings Memorials Art Treatments & Subjects

Regional & National History European History Social & Cultural History

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Art Spiegelman's Maus and the After-Images of History	p. 12
David Levinthal's Mein Kampf: History, Toys, and the Play of Memory	p. 42
Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie's Acts of Remembrance, 1991-1996	p. 62
Memory, Countermemory, and the End of the Monument: Horst Hoheisel, Micha Ullman, Rachel Whiteread, and Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock	p. 90
Memory Against Itself in Germany Today: Jochen Gerz's Countermonuments	p. 120
Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin: The Uncanny Arts of Memorial Architecture	p. 152
Germany's Holocaust Memorial Problem - and Mine	p. 184
Notes	p. 224
Bibliography	p. 233
Illustration Credits	p. 243
Index	p. 244
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