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1	The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning more books like this by James B Young add to wishlist In this study of Holocaust memorials, James E. Young explores both the idea of the monument and its role in public memory, disucssing how every nation remembers the Holocaust according to its own traditions, ideals, and experiences, and how these memorials reflect the ever-evolving meanings of the Holocaust in Europe, Israel and America. The ... see all copies from $11.22! new only from $26.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	At Memorys Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture more books like this by James Edward Young add to wishlist In this study, a professor of Judaic studies notes the ways in which artists of "new Germany" have integrated themes of the Holocaust into their art and architecture. He also examines the conflicts over creating a Holocaust memorial in Berlin and processes that got architect Daniel Liebeskind's Jewish Museum built. Highlighted artists include ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Caught by History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory more books like this by Ernst Van Alphen, Ernst Van Alphen add to wishlist In the face of strong moral and aesthetic pressure to deal with the Holocaust in strictly historical and documentary modes, this book discusses why and how reenactment of the Holocaust in art and imaginative literature can be successful in simultaneously presenting, analyzing, and working through this apocalyptic moment in human history. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.08!
4	Preempting the Holocaust more books like this by Professor Lawrence L Langer add to wishlist An exploration of the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors that Langer examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak, the Holocaust painter, and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.93! \| first editions
5	Holocaust Project: 2from Darkness Into Light more books like this by Judy Chicago, Donald Woodman (Photographer) add to wishlist Combining painting and photography, tapestries and stained glass, artist Judy Chicago offers a work of vast, almost liturgical, power--at once a moral inquiry into the Final Solution and a moving record of her discovery of her Jewishness. Tie-in exhibit scheduled to open October 1993 in Chicago and travel across country until May 1997. 40 pages of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light more books like this by Judy Chicago, Donald Woodman (Photographer) add to wishlist In 1985 Judy Chicago and her husband, photographer Donald Woodman, began an imaginative journey into the grim terrain of the Final Solution. The descendant of 23 generations of rabbis, she brought with her the growing artistic and intellectual vision that has resulted in such internationally renowned exhibitions as "The Dinner Party", "The Birth ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $49.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust more books like this by Robert O Fisch add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Reading Charlotte Salomon more books like this by Michael P Steinberg (Editor), Monica Bohm-Duchen (Editor) add to wishlist Looks at the life and work of Charlotte Salomon, who before dying at Auschwitz at the age of twenty-five, created a series of paintings that is a moving meditation on life, art, and death on the eve of the Holocaust. see all copies from $9.86! new only from $25.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Holocaust Representation: Art Within the Limits of History and Ethics more books like this by Dr. Berel Lang add to wishlist Since Theodor Adorno's attack on the writing of poetry "after Auschwitz", artists and theorists have faced the problem of reconciling the moral enormity of the Nazi genocide with the artist's search for creative freedom. In this study, Berel Lang addresses the relation between ethics and art in the context of contemporary discussions of the ... see all copies from $8.60! new only from $19.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust more books like this by Matthew Baigell add to wishlist Tracing the development of artistic work from the late 1930s to the present, this work looks at Jewish themes in American art. Few artists responded openly to the Holocaust until the 1960s, when it began to act as a galvanizing force and produce more direct imagery. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $17.50! \| first editions
11	Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust more books like this by Shelley Hornstein (Editor), Florence Jacobowitz (Editor) add to wishlist The passage of time and the reality of an aging survivor population have made it increasingly urgent to document and give expression to testimony, experience, and memory of the Holocaust. At the same time, artists have struggled to find a language to describe and retell a legacy often considered "unimaginable." Contrary to those who insist that ... see all copies from $19.36! new only from $23.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Last traces : the lost art of Auschwitz more books like this by Joseph P. Czarnecki add to wishlist From the inner recesses of Auschwitz come the little-known paintings, drawings, poems, slogans, and calendars featured in this book. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $10.99! \| first editions
13 view cover	Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation more books like this by Michael Rothberg add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! new only from $30.00! \| SVS
14 view cover	Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust more books like this by Stephen C Feinstein (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $45.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	A Mission in Art: Recent Holocaust Works in America more books like this by Vivian Thompson add to wishlist Examines artwork by Holocaust survivors and their children, as well as empathisizers, and discusses their artistic motivations. see all copies from $9.14! new only from $49.30! \| first editions
16 view cover	Bittersweet Legacy-- Volume XXIV: Creative Responses to the Holocaust more books like this by Cynthia Moskowitz Brody add to wishlist 86.50 see all copies from $39.99! new only from $67.09!
17 view cover	Judaism and the Visual Image: A Theology of Jewish Art more books like this by Melissa Raphael add to wishlist The widespread assumption that Jewish religious tradition is mediated through words, not pictures, has left Jewish art with no significant role to play in Jewish theology and ethics. "Judaism and the Visual Image" argues for a Jewish theology of image that, among other things, helps us re-read the creation story in Genesis 1 and to question why ... see all copies from $49.01! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
18	The Living Witness: Art in the Concentration Camps and Ghettos more books like this by Mary S Constanza, Mary S Costanza add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Representing the Irreparable: The Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak more books like this by Danna Nolan Fewell (Editor), Gary A Phillips (Editor), Yvonne Sherwood (Editor) add to wishlist The art of Samuel Bak depicts a world destroyed and yet provisionally pieced back together. Across nearly seven decades of artistic production Samuel Bak has explored and reworked a set of metaphors, a visual grammar and vocabulary, that ultimately privileges questions. Bak's pictorial readings invite reconsideration of the Post-Reformation ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $37.62!
20 view cover	When Memory Speaks: The Holocaust in Art more books like this by Nelly S Toll, PH.D. add to wishlist This diverse collection focuses on the art expression from the inferno of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust represents one of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind, it is thought by many only in terms of statistics - the brutal slaughter of over 6 million lives. The art of those who suffered under the most unspeakable conditions and ... see all copies from $29.87! new only from $57.00! \| first editions
21	My Brother's Keeper more books like this by Israel Bernbaum add to wishlist The author describes the Holocaust and explains how he tries to tell the story of that catastrophic slaughter of Jews through his art. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Anselm Kiefer/Paul Celan: Myth, Mourning and Memory more books like this by Andrea Lauterwein add to wishlist This book offers an authoritative exploration of the profound ways in which Paul Celans' poetry has directed Anselm Kiefers painting. It is magnificently illustrated throughout, with reproductions of Kiefers best-known works, including "Death Fugue", "Your Golden Hair", "Magarete" and "Brunnhilde/Grane". see all copies from $47.63! new only from $47.63! \| SVS
23 view cover	Light in the Shadows more books like this by Barbara Milman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24	Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust more books like this by Stephen C Feinstein (Editor) add to wishlist Twenty-three artists describe their feelings about the Holocaust through their art at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, January 29 - May 14, 1995. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $290.00!
25 view cover	Children of the Holocaust more books like this by Andrea Reiter (Editor) add to wishlist Children of the Holocaust contains the papers delivered at a conference to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day 2004, which was held under the auspices of the AHRC Parkes Centre at the University of Southampton. The book addresses questions of representation of the Holocaust by and of children, both in text and image. While the volume opens with a ... see all copies from $18.30! new only from $27.96!

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