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Title:
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The City as Theater of Memory: Palimpsest in Shimon Attie’s Berlin Project
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Creator:
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DesRosiers, Amy Allison
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.A.) -- Art History
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Art History
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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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.
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Abstract:
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Keywords:
Berlin, Mitte, Scheunenviertel, German Democratic Republic, architecture, construction,
identity, World War II, archive, the void, temporality, the city, Jewish culture
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
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Date:
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2015-03
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Format:
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PDF (59 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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