Barry Laga
BARRY LAGA {[email protected]} is professor of English at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado, where he teaches American literature, literary theory, and cultural studies.
Making the Absent Visible: The Real, Ideal, and the Abstract in Mormon Art
Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 2
In April 1993, President Bill Clinton, Elie Wiesel, international dignitaries, and Holocaust survivors celebrated the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Initiated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, the monument is one of the most expensive additions to the federal museum system. Its mission, described by the museum’s project director Michael Berenbaum, is to “memorialize the victims of Nazism by providing an exhaustive historical narrative of the Holocaust and to present visitors with an object lesson in the ethical ideals of American political culture by presenting the negation of those ideals.”
Read moreIn Lieu of History: Mormon Monuments and the Shaping of Memory
Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 4