coen, art and museums of the shoah: open problems, part ii
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Art and Architecture of the Shoah. Open Problems
Paolo Coen - Università della Calabriapaolocoen.blogspot.it
David Gafni, Holocaust Museum’s upgrading, Kibbutz of Yad Mordecai, Israel, 2003-2005The Honey Farm?
Nathan Rapaport, Mordechai Anielewicz, 1960, Kibbutz Yad Mordecai, with the water-tower destroyed in 1948 by the Egyptian’s troops on the background
Flashback Scene - Waltz with Bashir
The Risiera, i.e. rice mill, of San Sabba, Trieste, ItalyThe musealization of the architect Romano Boico1968-1975
It is old wisdom, and so already warned Heinrich Heine, a German and a jew: those who burn books end up burning men, violence is a not-estinguished seed.
Primo Levi
Why?Why closing the Italian Memorial?Why transferring it to Italy?Because of it – supposed – didactic inefficiency?Maybe.Here’s a better answer.
Hubert Lanzinger, The Standard Bearer, c. 1935, USHMM
Here’s the answer. Because through the art – no matter if you make it, appreciate it, write about it or even criticize it and
laugh at it – one may find a way to escape and denounce tyranny.
Any kind of tyranny. Avoiding pornography and rethorics.
Because true art reveals ways previously unknown. so widening our vision of the world.
2011 - Drive, by Nicolas Winding Refn, “A real hero, a real human being”
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