Andrea Liss
Art of the Shoah as Documentation and Post-Witnessing
 
 
 

1:30-3:00 pm Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Room 200 Court Yard Building
Art, Film and Letters of the Holocaust:
Ann Kirschner - "The Last New Voices: A Case Study of A Survivor's Inheritance"
Professor Gila Naveh - "Film and Fiction About the Holocaust"
Professor Susan Tiefenbrun - " The film The Pianist: On the Curative Role of the Arts During Genocidal War"
Professor Andrea Liss - "Art of the Shoah as Documentation and Post-Witnessing"
Leah Ollman, L.A. Times Art Critic - "Reckoning With the Past (and Future) Through Art"

 
     
 

Dr. Andrea Liss is the Contemporary Art Historian/Cultural Theorist at California State University San Marcos where her teaching focuses on feminist art and theory, photographic theory and representations of memory and history. She has published Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), as well as numerous book chapters, articles and exhibition catalog essays. Her book Bodies of Knowledge: Feminist Art and the Maternal is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press.