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Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall - History, Memory, Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall - History, Memory, Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics
theorises images from Attie's 'The Writing on the Wall 1991-1993'
installation as a memorial activity, and as an index or habitation
for history. The images, which appeared in Berlin's Scheunenviertel
district, are suspended by the palimpsestic associations
established between the fixated dead of the past and their ghostly
appearance in the present. Part of that palimpsest is a collective
cultural knowledge of the impending obliteration of community (both
the Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Berlin) by mass-produced
death. Peter Muir analyses Attie's work by responding to a series
of propositions arising from Walter Benjamin's Thesis 'On the
Concept of History.' Shimon Attie's Writing on the Wall: History,
Memory, Aesthetics's presiding metaphor is that of loss - the
central problem that the book addresses is that of forgetting.
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