Absence / Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust

By: Feinstein, Stephen C.

Book Overview

Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event of the twentieth century, if not in Western Civilization itself, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. As it analyzes a cross section of Holocaust art within the context of art history, Absence / Presence addresses the discussion head on and explores the interchange between media and horror. The book's contributors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630832
• ISBN13: 9780815630838
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"