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The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between
The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between
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Winner of the 2017 National Council on Public History Book Award
From around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memorial process for the murders at Ut ya, James E. Young has been called on to help guide the grief stricken and survivors in how to mark their losses. This poignant, beautifully written collection of essays offers personal and professional considerations of what Young calls the "stages of memory," acts of commemoration that include spontaneous memorials of flowers and candles as well as permanent structures integrated into sites of tragedy. As he traces an arc of memorial forms that spans continents and decades, Young returns to the questions that preoccupy survivors, architects, artists, and writers: How to articulate a void without filling it in? How to formalize irreparable loss without seeming to repair it? Richly illustrated, the volume is essential reading for those engaged in the processes of public memory and commemoration and for readers concerned about how we remember terrible losses.
Author: James E. Young
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 04/11/2018
Series: Public History in Historical Perspective
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781625343611
From around the world, whether for New York City's 9/11 Memorial, at exhibits devoted to the arts of Holocaust memory, or throughout Norway's memorial process for the murders at Ut ya, James E. Young has been called on to help guide the grief stricken and survivors in how to mark their losses. This poignant, beautifully written collection of essays offers personal and professional considerations of what Young calls the "stages of memory," acts of commemoration that include spontaneous memorials of flowers and candles as well as permanent structures integrated into sites of tragedy. As he traces an arc of memorial forms that spans continents and decades, Young returns to the questions that preoccupy survivors, architects, artists, and writers: How to articulate a void without filling it in? How to formalize irreparable loss without seeming to repair it? Richly illustrated, the volume is essential reading for those engaged in the processes of public memory and commemoration and for readers concerned about how we remember terrible losses.
Author: James E. Young
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 04/11/2018
Series: Public History in Historical Perspective
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781625343611
