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Discussion of Sarajevo Roses
By maintaining these poignant reminders of the siege, the people of Sarajevo have continued to rebuild their city without forgetting their past. The ...read »
Design Concepts for the Bruce Lee statue
The Bruce Lee statue, made by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Fijolic, was developed by the NGO Urban Movement Mostar in cooperation with the Sarajevo Center for ...read »
Design Concepts for Parque de la Memoria
On July 21, 1996, the City of Buenos Aires passed Law 46, officially establishing the Parque de la Memoria project and creating the first state-funded ...read »
Design of Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and Cemetery
The memorial has two parts, divided by a road. On one side of the road is the cemetery, which is shaped like the petals of a flower. On the other side is ...read »
Design for Paine Memorial, Chile
The citizens of Paine not only actively participated in the process of creating the memorial, they helped to design and build it. Over the course of a year, a ...read »
Discussion for the Paine Memorial
Rather than being designed by a single, professional designer, the Paine Memorial was created through a deeply participatory and consultative process. This ...read »
Design of Monument Against Fascism
Countermonuments are meant not only to commemorate, but also to reflect the memorial’s unfitting nature and memory’s inevitable limitations. The Gerzes felt ...read »
Discussion for the Monument Against Fascism
As the scholar James Young puts it, this monument “flouts any number of cherished memorial conventions.” It was designed “not to console but to provoke; not ...read »
Discussion of Mostar’s Bruce Lee statue
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Since artifacts are scarce, the Maison des Esclaves tells its story through its architecture. A horseshoe-shaped staircase divides the space between the ...read »Design of Irish Hunger Memorial
The artist Brian Tolle and the landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird designed the Irish Hunger Memorial. It consists of a half-acre of land, with 32 stones ...read »Discussion for Irish Hunger Memorial
Given the timing of its inauguration, in July 2002, and its location, just blocks from the World Trade Center, the Irish Hunger Memorial was initially ...read »Design of Constitution Hill
After it was decided, in 1995, to move the Constitutional Court to the site of the Old Fort, a major international competition was held in 1998 to determine ...read »
Design of District Six Museum
Upon entry to the District Six Museum, a large, interactive map on the floor and a display of old street signs give visitors a palpable sense of what life ...read »
Design for Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace
Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace consists of a 10,200-square-meter green space crossed by two intersecting paths that lead to a wall inscribed with the names of ...read »
Design of Herbert Baum Gedenkstein
The Herbert Baum Gedenkstein, as it was designed by Jürgen Raue in its original form, consists of a small stone cube with inscriptions on each of its four ...read »
Design of Oradour-sur-Glane
The victims of Oradour-sur-Glane are buried in a cemetery to the north of the village, where a tall column flanked by ossuaries memorializes the dead. Along ...read »
Discussion for Oradour-sur-Glane
In her study of Oradour-sur-Glane, Martyred Village, Sarah Farmer notes the “inherent impossibility” of freezing memory by attempting to preserve the ...read »
Design of Terror Háza
The Terror Háza museum was opened on February 24, 2002, after a year-long renovation process. The reconstruction aimed to make the building stand out ...read »
Discussion of Terror Háza
The museum has been both wildly popular and highly controversial. High-tech and slickly produced, the museum strikes some visitors as somewhat over-the-top, ...read »News
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Guardian Article http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/dark-tourism
The Guardian published a short piece about popular ‘dark tourism’ sites.
The Goethe Institute has an article about countermonuments by the historian Paul Sigel.
On his website, Jochen Gerz includes a bibliography of writing about his work.
Crownshaw, Richard “The German Countermonument: Conceptual Indeterminacies and the Retheorisation of the Arts of Vicarious Memory.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 44, no. 2 (2008): 212-227. http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/44/2/212
Galloway, D. “Happening in Hamburg.” Art in America 78, issue 5 (May 1990): 77.
Gibson, Michael “Hamburg: Sinking Feelings.” ARTnews 86 (Summer 1987): 106-07.
Goodheart, Adam “Slavery's Past, Paved Over Or Forgotten.” The New York Times, July 13, 2003. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/weekinreview/the-world-slavery-s-past-paved-over-or-forgotten.html
Hawkins, Peter S. “Naming names: The art of memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt.” Critical Inquiry 19, no. 4 (Summer 1993): 752.
Stull, Gregg “The AIDS Memorial Quilt.” American Art 15, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 84.
Weinberg, Jonathan “The quilt: Activism and remembrance.” Art in America 80, no. 12 (December 1992): 37.
The New York State Education Department has pages on the memorial, including a student guide.
Architectural Record has a slide show of photos of the memorial and a list of the people who worked on it.
Frankel, David “Hunger Artist.” Artforum International 40, no. 10 (Summer 2002): 35.
Holtz Kay, Jane “Hunger for Memorials: New York's Monument to the Irish Famine.” Landscape Architecture, March 2003. http://www.janeholtzkay.com/Articles/hunger.html
Kaizen, William R. Interview with Brian Tolle. BOMB 76 http://www.bombsite.com/issues/76/articles/2400
Klinkenborg, Verlyn “Editorial Observer; The Great Irish Hunger and the Art of Honoring Memory.” New York Times, July 21, 2002.
Coombes, Annie E. History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 2003.
Dick, Archie L. “Vincent Kolbe: A Librarian for Cape Town's Working Classes.” Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, 62, no. 2 (April-June 2008): 55-64.
Minty, Zayd “Post-apartheid public art in Cape Town: Symbolic reparations and public space.” Urban Studies 43, no. 2 (February 2006): 421-440.
Ross, Jen "In Chile, hope is reborn in 30-year quest for justice." The Washington Post, July 18, 2004: A22. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58375-2004Jul17.html
