How We Memorialize Tragic Events
When respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history and politics.
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Episode Notes
When tragedy strikes an individual, a nation, or an entire people, artists and architects are tasked with designing a public display that memorializes the event and its victims. But how do you do that? In this episode, art historian and podcaster Tamar Avishai examines the Denkmal Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., and others to look at how respecting and remembering loss collides with the demands of history and politics. We look at why abstract rather than representational memorials have seemed more resonant in recent years, and whether memorials, no matter how well done, might lose their impact after a single generation. Guest voices include Karen Krolak, James Young, and Michael Hays.
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