“Jewish Tactics and Memorial Space-making: Lisa Alembik’s Murder Ballads”
Abstract This essay discusses artist Lisa Alembik’s drawing series, Murder Ballads, as occupying the intersection of the imaginative discourse of post-witness representation and the production of Jewish memorial space. By representing missing places and people, Alembik puts her drawings into an exch...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Images
Year: 2018, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-65 |
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| Summary: | Abstract This essay discusses artist Lisa Alembik’s drawing series, Murder Ballads, as occupying the intersection of the imaginative discourse of post-witness representation and the production of Jewish memorial space. By representing missing places and people, Alembik puts her drawings into an exchange with an Appalachian musical form to explore family trauma. These crime scenes are spaces that breathe life into an inaccessible past. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-8000 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Images
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18718000-12340090 |