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Empathetic Memorials - The Other Designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Empathetic Memorials - The Other Designs for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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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 memorial's ambiguity or to complement the design's
visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political
memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the
memorial exclusively to murdered Jews.
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