Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Poetics Today
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,4 (1996) 659-686
Keywords:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts
Abstract:
Introduces the notion of postmemory, designating the memory of those who did not live through the traumatic events of the Holocaust but who grew up with narratives that preceded their birth. Examines the discourses of postmemory in the photographic work "Tower of Faces" exhibited in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, based on Yaffa Eliach's collection of prewar photographs from the Lithuanian town Eisiskes, and in the installations "Lesson of Darkness" by the French artist Christian Boltanski and another by the American artist Shimon Attie, both based on archival photographs - the former from a Jewish school in prewar Vienna, and the latter from a Jewish quarter in prewar Berlin. The photographic images provide the most powerful medium of postmemory; they are the means by which the children of survivors may rebuild and mourn the lost world of their parents.
Note:
On second-generation commemoration of the Holocaust, exemplified in the arts and in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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