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Unwanted beauty : aesthetic pleasure in Holocaust representation / Brett Ashley Kaplan.

Author/creator Kaplan, Brett Ashley
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxii, 215 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents only
Supplemental Content Contributor biographical information
Subject(s)
Contents Aesthetic survival : Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, and "Living next to Auschwitz" -- Aesthetic memory : Jorge Semprun and "The bitter residue of death" -- Aesthetic allusion : Edmond Jabès, "The page is a charred field where the dead would have written" -- Aesthetic mourning : Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski, and "Light pulsing through ash" -- Aesthetic pollution : Peter Eisenman, Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, James Ingo Freed, and "Nazi contamination."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-205) and index.
LCCN 2006000324
ISBN0252030931 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252030932 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252030932

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks D804.348 .K37 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold