Title & Author:

Visual culture and the Holocaust / edited and with an introduction by Barbie Zelizer.

Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2001.

Description:

vii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

Rutgers depth of field series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Visualizing the Holocaust / Barbie Zelizer -- High culture, low culture, and the domains of the visual : In plain sight / Liliane Weissberg -- Of ice and mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno / Andreas Huyssen -- Art : Deadly Historians: Boltanski’s intervention in Holocaust historiography / Ernst van Alphen -- Lost in translation: Clement Greenberg, Anselm Kiefer, and the subject of history / Lisa Saltzman -- Television and video : The man in the glass box : Watching the Eichmann trial on American television / Jeffrey Shandler -- Tele-suffering and testimony in the dot com era / Geoffrey Hartman -- Film : Schindler’s List is not Shoah: Second Commandment, popular modernism, and public memory / Miriam Bratu Hansen -- Hybrid victims: Second-generation Israelis screen the Holocaust / Yosefa Loshitzky -- Artifacts : Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish museum in Berlin: The uncanny arts of memorial architecture / James E. Young -- “From shore to shore”: The Holocaust, clandestine immigration, and Israeli heritage museums / Tamar Katriel -- Photographs : Surviving images: Holocaust photographs and the work of postmemory / Marianne Hirsch -- The tattooed Jew / Dora Apel -- Internet and the web : Clicking on Hitler: The virtual Holocaust @home / Anna Reading -- Analogs of loss: Vera Frenkel’s body missing (http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing) / Elizabeth Legge.

Summary:

"How does one represent the Holocaust? What does it mean to visualize it? Despite Theodor Adorno's famous injunction that there can be no poetry after the Holocaust, the past half century has produced repeated attempts to impart that which has been considered beyond the limits of representation. From Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary project Shoah, to Art Spiegelman's Maus, the visual domain has emerged as a fruitful venue for representing those horrible times. Visual Culture and the Holocaust takes that domain as its focus. It considers the increasing number of works that claim to give us access to the Holocaust, asking for whom these images are intended and how effective they are at promoting remembrance and understanding. Barbie Zelizer has gathered essays from a group of internationally renowned scholars representing a broad range of disciplines to consider both the traditional and the unconventional ways in which the Holocaust has been visually represented. In addressing film, painting, photography, museum exhibits, television, the Internet, and the body itself as venues for these representations, the essays explore the abilities of these different genres to testify to the tragedy, particularly in relation to the horrific historical fact they seek to translate. Visual Culture and the Holocaust substantially enhances what we know of the visual representation of the Holocaust. An introduction by the editor provides an important historical and theoretical overview of these efforts as well as a context in which these accomplishments may be understood."-- Back cover.

ISBN:

0813528925 (alk. paper)
9780813528922 (alk. paper)
0813528933 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780813528939 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Arts, Modern.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans l'art.
Arts 20e siècle.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in art
Kunst
Fotografie
Fernsehen
Judenvernichtung
Film
Art, Modern 20th century.

Added entries:

Zelizer, Barbie.
Rutgers depth of field series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217650
Call No.: NX650.H57 V5 2001
Status: Available