Since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and recognition of the Holocaust as a watershed event of the twentieth century, if not in Western Civilization itself, the capacity of art to represent this event adequately has been questioned. Contributors provide case studies that include a broad spectrum of artists from North America, Europe and Israel, and examine some of the dominant themes of their work. Contents include: Picturing Death: Better This than Silence, Robert PoorProbing the Limits of the Politics of Representation, Jeremy VaronAfter Auschwitz: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later, Monica Bohm-Duchen Jewish Artists in New York: The 1940s, Matthew Baigell From the Sublime to the Abject: Art and the Holocaust Six Decades Later, Andrew WeinsteinR. B. Kitaj's 'Good Bad' Diasporism and the Body in American Jewish Postmodern Art, Sander GilmanBak's Variations on a Theme by Bak, Lawrence LangerToward a Post-Holocaust Theology in Art: The Search for the Absent and Present God, Stephen FeinsteinHow to Remember, Nancy Weston Disaster Art: A Plea Against the Peripheral Stuff, Pier MartonConversations with Rzeszow: An Artist's Journey, Joyce LyonHaunting the Empty Place, Ziva Amishai-Maisels | Absence / Presence by Stephen C. Feinstein, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters