Historical burden: art after genocide

Elmedin _uni_

Chapter 19 in Handbook of Genocide Studies, 2023, pp 262-275 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter considers the impact of specific art projects in two post-genocide settings: post-war Germany, depicting art’s role in an intellectual dispute and the more recent case - the war in Bosnia. Due to the troubled pasts of the war generations, Germany entered turbulent public debate leading to serious soul searching. Artists Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer were deeply involved in the process: Beuys brought art to reconcile history with its generations, while Kiefer entered the haunting sphere of the past, ignoring the emerging walls that divided the country into two ideologies. Bosnia witnessed the death of brotherhood and unity, coming out of the war with scattered mass graves and contested monuments. In a country where collective memory is a distant domain, public monuments bear the function of mere markers for ethical division and historical revision.

Keywords: Geography; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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