History, Aesthetics, and Contemporary Commemorative Practice in Berlin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4071466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Czaplicka (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Issue | 65 |
| Pages | 155 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/488540 |
| OpenAlex | W2332791662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In postwar Germany, the public acknowledgement of human loss caused by Nazi terror has taken concrete form in works of art, memorials, and monuments as well as in the building of museums and the reclamation and reconfiguration of historical sites. Such efforts not only raise questions about the intentions of those involved, they also engender disputes about the appropriateness of the means employed to evoke the enormous human loss and suffering and to indicate the historical crimes that caused them. The artists, architects, historians, politicians, and engaged citizens, who seek in various manners to configure that past in the present, confront a knot of issues about representation. What role should aesthetics and documentation play in the mediation of human history? Which groups should be represented? How can one begin to mediate events so horrible they seem to defy altogether? A simple reversion to artistic or documentary conventions would not seem to suffice to undo this knot. Still, rather than merely proposing some admonition about the limits of representation whether by aesthetic or historical means and rather than letting Adorno's dictum about poetry after Auschwitz become a prohibition, one might more usefully probe the possibilities
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2016 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |