A Medievalist's Gaze: Christian Visual Rhetoric in Modern German Memorials (1950-2000)

ISBN-13: 9781800791084 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 284 str.

Christian Weikop; Galit Noga-Banai

Opis

This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Including but not limited to memorials for the victims of the Nazis in Germany, the book offers a medieval prism through which to view these works of art and understand their contribution to German memory culture.

Recenzje

«This book makes a strong case that memorials are embedded in local visual and historical traditions. While its comprehensive and detailed references make it a must-read for specialists, it will appeal not only to the many specialists working on memory and memorials, but also to general audiences interested in questions of visual culture and memorialization. Beautifully and engagingly written and illustrated.» (Professor Harold Marcuse, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Spis treści

Contents: Looking Abroad - The German Cemetery in El Alamein - Looking Around - The Memorial Fountain for the Synagogue at Lappenberg in Hildesheim - The Way of the Cross in Nuremberg - Looking through a Medieval Lens - Places of Remembrance in Berlin's Bavarian Quarter - Stolpersteine: Addressing the Victim in Situ - A Medievalist Guide in Kassel.

O autorze

Galit Noga-Banai is Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she lectures and writes on early Christian and medieval art. She is the author of The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Sacred Stimulus: Jerusalem in the Visual Christianization of Rome (Oxford University Press, 2018). In recent years she has also become interested in modern and contemporary medievalism.