The Wrapped Reichstag and Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe: Some Difficulties with Contemporary Monuments in Post-Reunification Berlin

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dc.contributor.advisorShannon, Joshuaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRook-Koepsel, Meganen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-20T05:38:45Z
dc.date.available2008-06-20T05:38:45Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-05en_US
dc.description.abstractThe proliferation of memory-sites following the reunification of Germany in 1990 was a testament to the great need of that nation for contextualizing and comprehending its recent traumatic histories. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Wrapped Reichstag Project for Berlin, and Peter Eisenman's Memorial for the Murdered Jew of Europe are two monuments whose visual forms and conceptual narratives offer answers to the question of how to represent, complicate, and perpetuate memory through monument forms. Yet an analysis of the public reception and comprehension of these two works and the dialogues constructed around their realizations shows that in many ways each of these monuments falls short of its conceptual goals. In this thesis I will question whether an effective and appropriate contemporary monument to Germany's traumatic past is even possible, suggesting that often those elements that make up a successful monument are also the ones that provide for its failings.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8225
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt Historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMonumenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledContemporary Arten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReichstagen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHolocaust Memorialen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBerlinen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReunificationen_US
dc.titleThe Wrapped Reichstag and Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe: Some Difficulties with Contemporary Monuments in Post-Reunification Berlinen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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