Word: holocaustic
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...media provides Lemieux's work with a material dynamic, directing the viewer's imagination to a remembered world of objects. Lemieux's juxtapositions of these objects offer more. Effects of this doubled consciousness produce an art that draws on memory. The Matter of History, 1994, exhibited pieces based on Holocaust and World War I imagery. The Appearance of Sound, 1989, presented works combining text and space, or erasures, with images, resulting in a creative display of new meanings...
...verdict not only vindicates Lipstadt's charges against Irving, but also clears the decks for more scholarly discussion about the Holocaust in contemporary social and political discourse. Scholars such as Dr. Peter Novick, for example, have provoked serious debate by suggesting, in a detailed history of the place of the Holocaust in American public life, that memory of the Holocaust has been tailored to suit such agendas as support for Israel against its Mideastern foes. "There's been a movement over the past decade to begin looking very seriously at the ways in which the Holocaust has been 'marketed...
...that Adolf Hitler has been misunderstood - and you make no secret of the fact that you enjoy the company of neo-Nazis - it may seem a little counterintuitive to sue for libel when you're accused of being a "Hitler partisan" and "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." And so it proved on Tuesday when a British judge dismissed a claim of defamation by historian David Irving against Penguin Books and U.S. academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving had sought to establish serious scholarly credentials for his claims...
...Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence," Justice Gray ruled. "For the same reasons he has portrayed Hitler in an unwarrantedly favorable light." The judge also found Irving to be "an active Holocaust denier, anti-Semitic, racist [who] associates with right-wing extremists who promote neo-Nazism." Irving says he will appeal the decision...
...provocative and unproductive and maybe even a little voyeuristic to conjure up such old evils as the "lynching bees"? I have talked to Israelis who do not want to hear another word about the Holocaust. Some American blacks are, in the same way, impatient with those who dwell on the past. They understand that tragic memory, while sometimes instructive, can also be destructive and transfixing. Surely Americans - a lucky and headlong and creatively forgetful people in many ways - live in a happier village than do, for example, memory-obsessed Bosnians, Serbs, Croats and Kosovars...