Memory Effects:

The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing

Rutgers University Press, 2002 - Art - 241 pages

In the post-Holocaust era of continuing genocides and ethnic warfare, there is a widespread compulsion to confront the attempted Nazi extermination of the Jews before the last survivors disappear forever. Dora Apel analyzes the ways in which artists born after the Holocaust -- whom she calls secondary witnesses -- represent a history they did not experience first hand. These individuals have deeply internalized the horror of these events, but their representations of the past include the cultural and political conditions of the present in which the past is considered. Apel shows that contemporary artists confront the Holocaust in order to bear witness not to the Holocaust directly, but to its "memory effects" and to the implications of those effects for the present and future.

Drawing on projects that employ a variety of unorthodox artistic strategies, Apel provides a unique understanding of contemporary representations of the Holocaust. She demonstrates how these artists frame the past within the conditions of the present, the subversive use of documentary and the archive, the effects of the Jewish genocide on issues of difference and identity, and the use of representation as a form of resistance to historical closure.

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About the author (2002)

Dora Apel is Associate Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Chair Dora Apel is Associate Professor and W. Hawkins Ferry Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. Shin Modern and Contemporary Art at Wayne State University. She is the author of "Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Are is the author of "Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing" (2002) and "Imagery of Lynching: t of Secondary Witnessing" (2002) and "Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob" (2004). Shawn Michelle Black Men, White Women, and the Mob" (2004). Shawn Michelle Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies Smith is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the auat the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of "American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visuathor of "American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture "(1999) and "Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B.l Culture "(1999) and "Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture " DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture

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Title	Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing
Author	Dora Apel
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	Rutgers University Press, 2002
ISBN	0813530490, 9780813530499
Length	241 pages
Subjects	Art › Subjects & Themes › Religious Art / Criticism & Theory Art / European Art / Subjects & Themes / General Art / Subjects & Themes / Religious History / Holocaust

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