Based largely on historical events
and historic upheavals echo in a cast of memorable characters
and the music hall
and her dreams of becoming a writer seem distant and pointless now
-- The Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust by Shelley Hornstein, Laurence J. Silberstein, and Laura Levitt Discount Based largely on historical eventsImpossible Images brings together a distinguished group of contributors, including artists, photographers, cultural critics, and historians, to analyze the ways in which the Holocaust has been represented in and through paintings, architecture, photographs, museums, and monuments. Exploring frequently neglected aspects of contemporary art after the Holocaust, the volume demonstrates how visual culture informs Jewish memory, and makes clear that art