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Agents of Liberations : Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film / Zoltán Kékesi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789633860670
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9/499405318 23
LOC classification:
  • NX180.H59 K45 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The Politics of Testimony -- Chapter 1 The Reappropriation of Violence: The Speech of the Resistance Fighters -- Chapter 2 The Restoration of Difference: The Speech of the Perpetrator -- Part II The Archive, in Spite of All -- Chapter 3 The Melancholy of the Archive -- Chapter 4 The Afterlife of Images -- Chapter 5 Mediating the Perpetrator’s Speech -- Chapter 6 In the Leading Role: Adolf Eichmann -- Part III Site and Speech -- Chapter 7 The Erasure of the Trace: the Restoration of Meaning -- Chapter 8 Trauma and Simulacra -- Chapter 9 From the Culture of Grief to the Politics of Imagination -- Chapter 10 Agents of Liberation -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The book explores representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices. Through carefully selected art projects, the author illuminates the specific historical, cultural, and political circumstances that influence the way we speak—or do not speak—about the Holocaust. The book's international focus brings into view film projects made by key artists reflecting critically upon forms of Holocaust memory in a variety of geographical contexts. Kékesi connects the ethical implications of the memory of the Holocaust with a critical analysis of contemporary societies, focusing upon artists who are deeply engaged in doing both of the above within three regions: Eastern Europe (especially Poland), Germany, and Israel. The case studies apply current methods of contemporary art theory, unfolding their implications in terms of memory politics and social critique.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The Politics of Testimony -- Chapter 1 The Reappropriation of Violence: The Speech of the Resistance Fighters -- Chapter 2 The Restoration of Difference: The Speech of the Perpetrator -- Part II The Archive, in Spite of All -- Chapter 3 The Melancholy of the Archive -- Chapter 4 The Afterlife of Images -- Chapter 5 Mediating the Perpetrator’s Speech -- Chapter 6 In the Leading Role: Adolf Eichmann -- Part III Site and Speech -- Chapter 7 The Erasure of the Trace: the Restoration of Meaning -- Chapter 8 Trauma and Simulacra -- Chapter 9 From the Culture of Grief to the Politics of Imagination -- Chapter 10 Agents of Liberation -- Bibliography -- Index

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The book explores representations of the Holocaust in contemporary art practices. Through carefully selected art projects, the author illuminates the specific historical, cultural, and political circumstances that influence the way we speak—or do not speak—about the Holocaust. The book's international focus brings into view film projects made by key artists reflecting critically upon forms of Holocaust memory in a variety of geographical contexts. Kékesi connects the ethical implications of the memory of the Holocaust with a critical analysis of contemporary societies, focusing upon artists who are deeply engaged in doing both of the above within three regions: Eastern Europe (especially Poland), Germany, and Israel. The case studies apply current methods of contemporary art theory, unfolding their implications in terms of memory politics and social critique.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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