| Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945 Contributor(s): Meltzer, Françoise (Author) |
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ISBN: 022662563X ISBN-13: 9780226625638 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Criticism - Literary Criticism | European - German - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 700.458 |
| LCCN: 2019005348 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 8.1" (1.10 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Esteemed scholar Fran oise Meltzer examines images of war ruins in Nazi Germany and the role that images play in how we construct memories of war. The ruins of war have long held the power to stupefy and appall. Can such ruins ever be persuasively depicted and comprehended? Can images of ruins force us to identify with the suffering of the enemy and raise uncomfortable questions about forgiveness and revenge? Fran oise Meltzer explores these questions in Dark Lens, which uses the images of war ruins in Nazi Germany to investigate problems of aestheticization and the representation of catastrophe. Through texts that give accounts of bombed-out towns in Germany in the last years of the war, painters' attempts to depict the destruction, and her own mother's photographs taken in 1945, Meltzer asks if any medium offers a direct experience of war ruins for the viewer. Refreshingly accessible and deeply personal, Dark Lens is a compelling look at the role images play in constructing memory. |
Contributor Bio(s): Meltzer, Francoise: - Françoise Meltzer is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where she is also professor at the Divinity School and in the College, and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature. Meltzer is the author of five books, most recently of Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity, and a coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry. |