At Memory's Edge: After-images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and ArchitectureIn 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in World War II. In this book he tells his story. How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once commited in its name, and, also, how can a generation of contemporary artists remember an event like the Holocaust, which it never knew directly? The author offers insights into the controversy surrounding Berlin's newly opened Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, as well as Germany's soon-to-be-built national Holocaust memorial, designed by Peter Eisenman. |
