Absence/Presence: Essays and Reflections on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust

Steve Feinstein

Syracuse University Press, Aug 11, 2005 - Art - 356 pages

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. Contributors provide case studies that include a broad spectrum of artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work.

About the author

Stephen Feinstein is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and now serves as permanent Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has been the curator for six museum exhibitions about Holocaust art, has edited one book, and written six art catalogues. 

Bibliographic information

• Title: Absence/Presence: Essays and Reflections on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust; Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust
• Editor: Steve Feinstein
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0815630832, 9780815630838
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory; Art / Subjects & Themes / General; History / Jewish; History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust; Literary Collections / Essays