Holocaust representation : art within the limits of history and ethics / Berel Lang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Berel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At an extreme, all Holocaust representation must face the test of whether its referent would not be more authentically expressed by silence--that is, by the absence of representation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction Art within the Limits

I - Image and Fact The Problem of Holocaust Representation

1- Writing the Holocaust Toward the Condition of History

2- Holocaust Texts and the Blurred Genres

3- The Limits of Representation and the Representation of Limits

II Eye and Mind Reflecting the Holocaust

6- The Arts of History

7- Translating the Holocaust For Whom Does One Write?

8- The Post-Holocaust vs. the Postmodern Evil Inside and Outside History

9- Art Worship and Its Images

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7636-2

OCLC:

70753510