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Solomon-Godeau, Abigail
Oxford art journal, 01/1998, Letnik: 21, Številka: 2Journal Article
Christian Boltanski's "Missing House", a site-specific work created in 1993 and located in the former East Berlin is a work organized around the missing central section of an apartment building destroyed in the allied bombings of Berlin. To the degree that the work's thematics are those of absence and disappearance, it bears comparisons to other contemporary 'counter-monuments' that deal with both the war and the holocaust. Nevertheless, the work raises troubling questions about the distinction between historical commemoration and generic elegy, a distinction that may be likened to Freud's concept of mourning as opposed to the illness of melancholy.
