Memorials for the Dachau concentration camp

Author

Hoffmann-Curtius, Kathrin

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Oxford art journal. 1998, Num. 2, Vol. 21, p. 21-44, 213, 17 ill.

ISSN

0142-6540

Abstract (en)

The article refers to the memory of the Dachau concentration camp captured in pictorial signs [German commemorative monuments and art] from 1945 to 1968. The camp and its surroundings will be regarded as a discursive field in which different signs were erected for different events, referring to each other. Two strategies of representation can be recognized: on the one hand endeavor was made to document the facts of terror and murder while on the other these facts were symbolized and sacralized. During the years the latter method was favored more and more. Minimizing the relics of the Nazi era was a basic condition for yielding a maximum of (historical) meaning; a process led by the Bavarian State and the Catholic Church.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Germany
• Holocaust (1939-1945)
• concentration camp||Dachau (DEU)
• Iconography
• Art
• 1945-1968
• Germany
• Commemorative monuments
• Memory

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Allemagne
• Holocauste (1939-1945)
• camp de concentration||Dachau (DEU)
• Iconographie
• Art
• 1945-1968
• Allemagne
• Monument commémoratif
• Mémoire

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990401-00202515

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