Empathetic memorials : the other designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial / Mark Callaghan.
Callaghan, Mark, author.
2020
D804.175.B47
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Title Empathetic memorials : the other designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial / Mark Callaghan.
Author Callaghan, Mark, author.
ISBN 9783030509323 (electronic book)
303050932X (electronic book)
3030509311
9783030509316
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50932-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-50932-3 doi
Call Number D804.175.B47
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.5318640943155
Summary This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of concentration camp iconography. It explores the relationship between empathy and cultural memory when representations of suffering are notably absent. The book submits that one design represents the idea of an uncanny memorial, and also pays attention to viewer co-authorship in counter-monuments. Analysis of counter-monuments also include their creative engagement with German history and their determination to defy fascist aesthetics. As the winning design for The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is abstract with an information centre, there is an exploration of the memorial museum. Callaghan asks whether this configuration is intended to compensate for the abstract memorials ambiguity or to complement the designs visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the memorial exclusively to murdered Jews.
Note Includes index.
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Series Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030509316
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1. Introduction
2. Who is the the memorial for?
3. Issues of representation
4. Different ways of understanding individual victims: names, photographs and the void
5. Designs that attempt to resist the completion of memory
6. Conclusion.

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