Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Judaism; a Journal of Jewish Life & Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
43,4 (1994) 412-418
Keywords:
Gerz, Jochen
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art
Abstract:
A new generation of contemporary artists and monument-makers in Germany is probing the limits of their artistic media and the very notion of a memorial. They fear that if monuments do the memory-work, then the public may become forgetful. The creation of counter-monuments might lead to re-evaluation of the traditional function of monuments and discussion of them after the Holocaust. Describes, as an example, the new counter-monument made by Jochen Gerz in Saarbrücken, which involved the inscription of the names of missing Jewish cemeteries on 70 of the 8,000 cobblestones in the town square, but the inscriptions are face-down. Therefore, anyone standing in the town square may be standing on a memorial stone. Thereby, memory has been transferred to the public's consciousness.
Note:
Appeared as "Germany's vanishing monuments" in "Major Changes within the Jewish People" (1996) 641-648, and in its Hebrew version:
,
"תמורות יסוד בעם היהודי" (תשנו) 595-602
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