Diana I Popescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1505486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana I Popescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana I |
| FAMILY NAME | Popescu |
| SIGNATURE | POPESCU D I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8236-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Potency of Design in Holocaust Exhibitions. A Case Study of The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition (2000)
Holocaust exhibitions are known for their unique iconography, often constructed by means of exhibition design. This article focuses on how visitors construct meaning based on display choices made by exhibitions designers. It presents insights from an audience research study which was conducted with young visitors of The Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. It addresses how design choices impact on the visitor’s engagement an…
Natasha Goldman, Memory Passages. Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany
Performative Holocaust commemoration in the 21st century
Performative practices aim to transform individuals from passive spectators into socially and morally responsible agents. Although performative practices figure prominently in Holocaust memorialization of the past two decades, they remain significantly under-researched. This article provides a critical introduction to this Special Issue’s contributions which explore performative practices in contemporary artistic, educational, and in memorial pro…
Eulogy of a different kind
Letters to Henio is an emblematic example of an audience participatory memorial practice developed by the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin. This article provides an ethnographic account of this initiative and presents insights from an audience research study conducted with young people in 2016. It discerns the immediate impact this initiative has on young participants’ attitudes towards commemoration of Holocaust victims. This research …
Staging Encounters with Estranged Pasts
This article provides a close analysis of Radu Jude’s The Dead Nation (2017), a documentary essay that brings together authentic archival sources documenting the persecution and murder of Jews in World War II. The sources include a little-known diary of Emil Dorian, a Jewish medical doctor and writer from Bucharest, a collection of photographs depicting scenes from Romanian daily life in the 1930s and 1940s, and recordings of political speeches a…
Post-witnessing the concentration camps
This article offers a critical analysis of British writer Angela Morgan Cutler’s and Jewish American author Paul Auster’s accounts of their encounters with the Nazi sites of mass murder Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Having no personal connection to the history of the Holocaust, Cutler and Auster post-witness the past through experiencing contradictory sensorial and cognitive reactions to the memorial sites, which resemble cognitive disson…
Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era
Jewish art
Jewish Art: A Modern History offers a scholarly, yet broadly accessible and richly descriptive engagement with Jewish artistic expression in modern times. Firmly grounded in the disciplines of art
The persistence of nostalgia? When Poles miss their Jews and Israelis yearn for Europe
The relevance of nostalgia and memory in the constitution of identity narratives of individuals and nation states is a well-documented phenomenon. Yet little is known about the function of nostalgia in the context of Israeli and Polish relations. The Holocaust experience has changed in dramatic ways how Jews and Poles relate to the category of nostalgia. In this essay Swetlana Boym’s distinction between ‘reflective nostalgia’ and ‘restorative nos…
The ‘Defamiliarising’ Aspect of Art about the Holocaust
Since the 1980s, art curators have increasingly adopted novel strategies of display of visual art that explores the subject of the Holocaust, including a movement away from images of Jewish victimisation towards more detached and ‘defamiliarising’ representational attitudes. This essay discusses this transition, suggesting that the changes in art display emerged alongside generational shifts and involved a re-evaluation of the representation of t…
The aesthetics and ethics of performative Holocaust memory in Poland
This article addresses the performative dimension of the post-1989 Polish memorial culture of the Holocaust, characterised by a collaborative and audience-participatory model of remembering the Jewish victims. In this model participants are invited to become creators and owners of public memory, rather than silent observers or witnesses to commemorations performed by others. The article offers a critical and theoretical understanding of performat…
Performative Holocaust commemoration in the 21st century
Performative practices aim to transform individuals from passive spectators into socially and morally responsible agents. Although performative practices figure prominently in Holocaust memorialization of the past two decades, they remain significantly under-researched. This article provides a critical introduction to this Special Issue’s contributions which explore performative practices in contemporary artistic, educational, and in memorial pro…
Eulogy of a different kind
Letters to Henio is an emblematic example of an audience participatory memorial practice developed by the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin. This article provides an ethnographic account of this initiative and presents insights from an audience research study conducted with young people in 2016. It discerns the immediate impact this initiative has on young participants’ attitudes towards commemoration of Holocaust victims. This research …
Post-witnessing the concentration camps
This article offers a critical analysis of British writer Angela Morgan Cutler’s and Jewish American author Paul Auster’s accounts of their encounters with the Nazi sites of mass murder Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Having no personal connection to the history of the Holocaust, Cutler and Auster post-witness the past through experiencing contradictory sensorial and cognitive reactions to the memorial sites, which resemble cognitive disson…
The ‘Defamiliarising’ Aspect of Art about the Holocaust
Since the 1980s, art curators have increasingly adopted novel strategies of display of visual art that explores the subject of the Holocaust, including a movement away from images of Jewish victimisation towards more detached and ‘defamiliarising’ representational attitudes. This essay discusses this transition, suggesting that the changes in art display emerged alongside generational shifts and involved a re-evaluation of the representation of t…
The aesthetics and ethics of performative Holocaust memory in Poland
This article addresses the performative dimension of the post-1989 Polish memorial culture of the Holocaust, characterised by a collaborative and audience-participatory model of remembering the Jewish victims. In this model participants are invited to become creators and owners of public memory, rather than silent observers or witnesses to commemorations performed by others. The article offers a critical and theoretical understanding of performat…
The ‘Defamiliarising’ Aspect of Art about the Holocaust
Since the 1980s, art curators have increasingly adopted novel strategies of display of visual art that explores the subject of the Holocaust, including a movement away from images of Jewish victimisation towards more detached and ‘defamiliarising’ representational attitudes. This essay discusses this transition, suggesting that the changes in art display emerged alongside generational shifts and involved a re-evaluation of the representation of t…
The persistence of nostalgia? When Poles miss their Jews and Israelis yearn for Europe
The relevance of nostalgia and memory in the constitution of identity narratives of individuals and nation states is a well-documented phenomenon. Yet little is known about the function of nostalgia in the context of Israeli and Polish relations. The Holocaust experience has changed in dramatic ways how Jews and Poles relate to the category of nostalgia. In this essay Swetlana Boym’s distinction between ‘reflective nostalgia’ and ‘restorative nos…
Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era
Jewish art
Jewish Art: A Modern History offers a scholarly, yet broadly accessible and richly descriptive engagement with Jewish artistic expression in modern times. Firmly grounded in the disciplines of art
Post-witnessing the concentration camps
This article offers a critical analysis of British writer Angela Morgan Cutler’s and Jewish American author Paul Auster’s accounts of their encounters with the Nazi sites of mass murder Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Having no personal connection to the history of the Holocaust, Cutler and Auster post-witness the past through experiencing contradictory sensorial and cognitive reactions to the memorial sites, which resemble cognitive disson…
Staging Encounters with Estranged Pasts
This article provides a close analysis of Radu Jude’s The Dead Nation (2017), a documentary essay that brings together authentic archival sources documenting the persecution and murder of Jews in World War II. The sources include a little-known diary of Emil Dorian, a Jewish medical doctor and writer from Bucharest, a collection of photographs depicting scenes from Romanian daily life in the 1930s and 1940s, and recordings of political speeches a…
Performative Holocaust commemoration in the 21st century
Performative practices aim to transform individuals from passive spectators into socially and morally responsible agents. Although performative practices figure prominently in Holocaust memorialization of the past two decades, they remain significantly under-researched. This article provides a critical introduction to this Special Issue’s contributions which explore performative practices in contemporary artistic, educational, and in memorial pro…
Eulogy of a different kind
Letters to Henio is an emblematic example of an audience participatory memorial practice developed by the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin. This article provides an ethnographic account of this initiative and presents insights from an audience research study conducted with young people in 2016. It discerns the immediate impact this initiative has on young participants’ attitudes towards commemoration of Holocaust victims. This research …
The Potency of Design in Holocaust Exhibitions. A Case Study of The Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition (2000)
Holocaust exhibitions are known for their unique iconography, often constructed by means of exhibition design. This article focuses on how visitors construct meaning based on display choices made by exhibitions designers. It presents insights from an audience research study which was conducted with young visitors of The Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London. It addresses how design choices impact on the visitor’s engagement an…
Natasha Goldman, Memory Passages. Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany
Art (10 works) · The Holocaust (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)