Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,1 (2003) 1-18
Keywords:
Gerz, Jochen
;
Shalev-Gerz, Esther
;
Eisenman, Peter,
;
Serra, Richard,
;
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
Argues that a simplistic identification of monumentalism with a fascist and Nazi art style has forced architects and designers of some Holocaust commemoration sites to diminish the emotional and political impact of monuments, museums, and memorials. Some architects altered their original designs so they would not be perceived as "fascist, " at the cost of their larger cultural function of encouraging remembrance. Shows how a fear of "aesthetic pollution" through fascist monumentality influenced Peter Eisenman and Richard Serra's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz's Monument against Fascism in Harburg-Hamburg, and James Ingo Freed's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
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