Agents of Liberations: Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film

✍ Scribed by Zoltán Kékesi

Publisher: Central European University Press
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book explores representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices. Through carefully selected art projects, the author illuminates the specific historical, cultural, and political circumstances that influence the way we speak―or do not speak―about the Holocaust. The book's international focus brings into view film projects made by key artists reflecting critically upon forms of Holocaust memory in a variety of geographical contexts.

Kékesi connects the ethical implications of the memory of the Holocaust with a critical analysis of contemporary societies, focusing upon artists who are deeply engaged in doing both of the above within three regions: Eastern Europe (especially Poland), Germany, and Israel. The case studies apply current methods of contemporary art theory, unfolding their implications in terms of memory politics and social critique.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page, Copyright Page
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Reappropriation of Violence: The Speech of the Resistance Fighters / Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985) and Sobibￃﾳr, 14 October 1943, 4pm (2001)
Chapter 2: The Restoration of Difference: The Speech of the Perpetrator / Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (1985)
Chapter 3: The Melancholy of the Archive
Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Images / Harun Farocki: Respite (2007
Chapter 5: Mediating the Perpetrator￢ﾀﾙs Speech / Romuald Karmakar: The Himmler Project (2000)
Chapter 6: In the Leading Role: Adolf Eichmann / Eyal Sivan: The Specialist (1999)
Chapter 7: The Erasure of the Trace: The Restoration of Meaning /Artur ￅﾻmijewski: 80064 (2004)
Chapter 8: Trauma and Simulacra / Omer Fast: Spielberg￢ﾀﾙs List (2003)
Chapter 9: From the Culture of Grief to the Politics of Imagination / Yael Bartana: Polish Trilogy (2007￢ﾀﾓ2011
Chapter 10: Agents of Liberation / Clemens von Wedemeyer: Rushes (2012)
Bibliography
Index

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