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Caught by History - Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory (Hardcover)
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Caught by History - Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory (Hardcover)
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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 pursuing his argument, the author explores such diverse
materials and themes as: the testimonies of Holocaust survivors;
the works of such artists and writers as Charlotte Salomon,
Christian Boltanski, and Armando; and the question of what it means
to live in a house built by a jew who was later transported to the
death camps. He shows that reenactment, as an artistic project,
also functions as a critical strategy, one that, unlike historical
methods requiring a mediator, speaks directly to us and lures us
into the Holocaust.
We are then placed in the position of experiencing and being the
subjects of that history. We are there, and history is present--but
not quite. A confrontation with Nazism or with the Holocaust by
means of a re-enactment takes place within the representational
realm of art. Our access to this past is no longer mediated by the
account of a witness, by a narrator, by the eye of a photographer.
We do not respond to a re-presentation of the historical event, but
to a presentation or performance of it, and our response is direct
or firsthand in a different way. That different way of "keeping in
touch" is the subject of inquiry that propels this study.
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