The stages of memory : reflections on memorial art, loss, and the spaces between /

Young, James Edward,

The stages of memory : reflections on memorial art, loss, and the spaces between / James E. Young. - 1 online resource (260 pages) - Public history in historical perspective . - Public history in historical perspective. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The memorial's vernacular arc between Berlin's Denkmal and New York City's 9/11 Memorial -- The stages of memory at Ground Zero: the National 9/11 Memorial process -- Daniel Libeskind and the houses of Jewish memory: what is Jewish architecture? -- Regarding the pain of women: gender and the arts of holocaust memory -- The terrible beauty of Nazi aesthetics -- Looking into the mirrors of evil: Nazi imagery in contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York -- The contemporary arts of memory in the works of Esther Shalev-Gerz, Miroslaw Balka, Tobi Kahn, and Komar and Melamid -- Utya and Norway's July 22 memorial: the memory of political terror.

9781613764930 (e-book)


Memorialization--Social aspects.
Memorials--Social aspects.
Loss (Psychology) in art.


Electronic books.

GT3390 / .Y68 2016

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