Edited by Loren Lerner
ISBN 0-88947-390-0
269 pages
$30.00 CDN/USD
Introduction
Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts grew out of the exhibition and conference held at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. The publication consists of two parts. The first considers the exhibition Afterimage, which included works inspired by memories of the Shoah as expressed through the personal voices of women artists who were born near the end or after World War II, and were affected by the war and the Holocaust. The artists include are Sorel Cohen, Katja Macleod Kessin, Mindy Yan Miller, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Wendy Oberlander, Sylvia Safdie, Yvonne Singer, and Marion Wagschal.
The second part of the publication is a collection of essays and creative writings. Visual and performing artists, creative writers and cultural historians were invited to the conference to consider the impact of the Holocaust on recent Canadian art and literature. The diversity of the presentations, which included scholarly papers, video screenings and literary readings, is reflected in these artistic, academic, and personal writings. The authors are Doug Beardsley, Lisa Marielle Bleyer, Irena Eisler, Tibor Egervari, Gary Evans, Linda Rimer, Reesa Greenberg, Katja MacLeod Kessin, Loren Lerner, Bernard Lévy, Claudine Majzels, Marie-Jeanne Musiol, Norman Ravvin, Régine Robin, Yvonne Singer, Judith Thompson, and Belarie Zatzman.
Afterimage is the first book of its kind to consider Holocaust Studies with a Canadian focus on arts and literature.
Loren Lerner is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University.