An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global proportions. What has been less obvious is the effect on the locus of the attacks, New York City, not as a seat of political or economic power, but as a community; not in the days and weeks afterward, but over months and years. New York after 9/11 offers insightful and critical obser...

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, University of Hamburg (Kunstgeschichtliches Institut), course: Hauptseminar, language: English, abstract: "If I perish, don’t let my paintings die, exhibit them!" While speaking these words in his Belgian exile in 1942, Felix Nussbaum did not know that he had only two more years to live until the terror regime of National-Socialism would murder him and his wife, Felka Platek, in Ausc...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Kunst - Architektur, Baugeschichte, Denkmalpflege, Note: 1,7, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn Libeskinds Bauten dekonstruktivistische sind, was sind dann die Zeichen dekonstruktivistischer Architektur? Da Libeskinds Architektur zwar als jene deklariert, insbesondere jedoch als textuelle Architektur in architekturtheoretischen Diskurs interpretiert wird, sollen dafür bezeichnende Gestaltungselemente der Museumsba...

It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, monumental stone architecture, roads, and a puzzling ideographic script. And then they went about sculpting amazing, giant human figures in stone.This richly illustrated book of the history,...

Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story had failed. But three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapes—several years' worth—with his spectacular life, triumphs, and tragedies told one last time in his baritone voice.Nachman Libeskind's remarkable story is an odyssey through crucial events of the twentieth century. With an unshakable will and a few drops of luck, he s...