Articles tagged "Countermonument"
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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 »News
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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
Young, James “The Countermonument: Memory against itself in Germany.” In The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning, 27-48. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
