Visual archives as preposterous history

Art History

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-382

  Van Alphen, Ernst ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 43249138254     PISSN: 01416790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2007.00550.x     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Terrence Des Pres, 'Holocaust Laughter', in Writing and the Holocaust, ed. Berel Lang, New York, 1998, 216-33.
2. Mieke Bal, Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, Chicago, 1999, 1.
3. Delphine Renard, 'Interview with Christian Boltanski', Boltanski, exhib. cat., Paris, 1984, 71,
4. quoted in Lynn Gumpert, Christian Boltanski, Paris, 1994, 32.
5. See John Czaplicka, 'History, Aesthetics, and Contemporary Commemorative Practice in Berlin', New German Critique, 65 1995, 155-87.
6. Ydessa Hendeles is one of the most important collectors of contemporary art and of the history of photography. She has her own museum in which she curates exhibtions out of her own collection, the Ydessa Hendeles Foundation in Toronto. For an analysis of her practice of collecting and curating, see Reesa Greenberg, 'Private Collectors, Museums and Display: A Post-Holocaust Perspective', Jong Holland, 1:16, 2000, 29-41.
7. The exhibition, which Hendeles curated for the Haus der Kunst in Munich, has the same title as her teddy bear installation Partners. In case of the exhibition the title has several meanings. It refers to the collaboration between a public museum and a private collector, between a German institution and a Jewish collector, between Hitler's former museum and the daughter of Holocaust survivors. For an analysis of this exhibition, see Ernst van Alphen, 'Die Ausstellung als narratives Kunstwerk/Exhibition as Narrative Work of Art' in Partners, eds Chris Dercon and Thomas Weski, Cologne, 2003, 143-85.
8. Ydessa Hendeles, 'Notes on the Exhibition', in Partners, eds Dercon and Weski, 212.
9. Ydessa Hendeles, 'Notes on the Exhibition', 211-12.
10. Sigmund Freud, 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Ereud, vols 4-5, ed. James Strachey, London, 1973, 1-629.
11. Kaja Silverman, Flesh of My Flesh, Chicago, forthcoming.
12. Silverman, Flesh of My Flesh.
13. www.artmargins.com/content/interview/forgacs.html (1 December 2004).
14. Mieke Bal, Quoting Caravaggio, 1.