COLLECTION NAME:
Graduate Thesis Collection
Record
Title:
The City as Theater of Memory: Palimpsest in Shimon Attie’s Berlin Project
Creator:
DesRosiers, Amy Allison
Subject:
Thesis (M.A.) -- Art History
Subject:
Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Art History
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Abstract:
This thesis explores the notion of the city as a text in constant revision both in terms of its
physical and psychological constructions. I elaborate this theory by looking at Berlin in the
twentieth century through Shimon Attie’s project The Writing on the Wall: Projections in
Berlin’s Jewish Quarter (1991–1993). Attie’s project occurred in Berlin’s central district, Mitte
only a few years after the wall came down in 1989. The early nineties provided a unique setting
for a growing art scene with a fresh abundance of foreign influence. Divisions and reunifications
punctuate Berlin’s twentieth-century history, the time of Attie’s installation marking another
period of cultural re-integration.
physical and psychological constructions. I elaborate this theory by looking at Berlin in the
twentieth century through Shimon Attie’s project The Writing on the Wall: Projections in
Berlin’s Jewish Quarter (1991–1993). Attie’s project occurred in Berlin’s central district, Mitte
only a few years after the wall came down in 1989. The early nineties provided a unique setting
for a growing art scene with a fresh abundance of foreign influence. Divisions and reunifications
punctuate Berlin’s twentieth-century history, the time of Attie’s installation marking another
period of cultural re-integration.
Abstract:
Keywords:
Berlin, Mitte, Scheunenviertel, German Democratic Republic, architecture, construction,
identity, World War II, archive, the void, temporality, the city, Jewish culture
Berlin, Mitte, Scheunenviertel, German Democratic Republic, architecture, construction,
identity, World War II, archive, the void, temporality, the city, Jewish culture
Publisher:
Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
Date:
2015-03
Format:
PDF (59 pages) : illustrations (some color)