World War II: Reverberations

Abstract

The 1994 fifty-year anniversary of the D day invasion of Normandy, the success of the controversial 1993 film Schindler's List, and the 1993 opening of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., are all clear indications that World War II still remains in the public eye. Indeed, the recent major changes in geopolitical boundaries in Europe and the atrocities in the name of “ethnic cleansing” point to the continued relevance of concerns addressed by postwar artists.