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Author Godfrey, Mark (Mark Benjamin)

Title Abstraction and the Holocaust / Mark Godfrey
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description ix, 294 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents Introduction : abstraction and the Holocaust -- Morris Louis's Charred journal : Firewritten paintings, 1951 -- Barnett Newman's The stations of the cross : Lema Sabachthani, 1958-1966 -- Frank Stella's Polish village series, 1970-1974 -- Louis Kahn's Memorial to the six million Jewish martyrs, 1966-1972 -- Beryl Korot's Dachau 1974, 1974 -- Mel Bochner's Via Tasso project, 1993 -- Commissions in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1993 -- Conclusion : Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, 1997-2005, and Susan Hiller's The J. Street project, 2002-2005
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index
Notes Also available online (Table of contents)
Subject Architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
Art, Abstract -- United States.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
LC no. 2007014684
ISBN 030012676X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300126761 (cloth : alk. paper)