Thank you to everyone who joined this month's discussion of In Memory of Memory by Russian poet, essayist, and journalist Maria Stepanova!
The list of links for viewing, reading, and exploring for In Memory of Memory could run for pages. These are just a few:
"The Haunting History of the Frozen 'Charlotte' Dolls" (the small porcelain dolls described): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/frozen-charlotte-dolls
Diversions, one of the documentaries referenced in the book: https://vimeo.com/143138473
The shadow boxes of Joseph Cornell (including a description and image of Taglioni's Jewel Casket, which was described in the book): https://www.theartstory.org/artist/cornell-joseph/
Examples of the artwork created by Charlotte Salomon for Life? Or Theater?: https://www.thecjm.org/exhibitions/35
A new (2021) animated film about Charlotte Salomon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5806814/
Interview with Marianne Hirsch about "postmemory": https://cup.columbia.edu/author-interviews/hirsch-generation-postmemory
Video of an Edinburgh International Book Festival session with Maria Stepanova and the book's translator Sasha Dugale: https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/media-gallery/item/maria-stepanova-sasha-dugdale-with-allan-little
A brief summary of the Doctor's Plot, which threatened Stepanova's family members.
The Wurzburg Residence fresco by Giammbatista Tiepolo
The Forest Fire by Piero di Cosimo (painting)
Rafael Goldchain's series of recreated and imagined family photos: I Am My Family
Our February 27 Discussion
For next month, we turn to Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain.
About the book: "Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain's Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power—economic and political—and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice." (more)
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