This book discusses the active relationship among the mechanics of memory, visual practices, and historical narratives. The volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, history and visual studies.

Introduction Part 1: Forms of Memory and Oblivion 1. Dis-Remembered and Mis-Remembered: A Confrontation with Failures of Cultural Memory 2. Matejko. How Did He Do It? 3. The Devotional Image as a Medium of Memory: The Case of the Painting of the Divine Mercy by Eugeniusz Kazimirowski 4. Images in cito, in situ, in extremis: visual testimonies from the "Holocaust by bullets" 5. The Stratified Image. Medium, Construction and Memory in Frank Stella's Polish Villages 6. Against Illusion. Kuno Raeber's Thoughts on the Power of Material and the Art of Karl Rössing 7. The Past, Memory and Oblivion 8. A Leap. Operations of Memory Between Sketch and Picture in Piotr Potworowski's Painting Process 9. Smiling in Auschwitz. Instagram Selfies and Historical Representation at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum 10. Image World, Memory Space: Photographic Spectatorship as a Mode of Remembrance Part 2: Memory and Identity 11. The Memorial Topography of the Holodomor Between Cumulative and Cultural Trauma: A Genealogical Approach 12. Building the Finnish National Mythos. Photographs from the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 and their post-war use 13. Archived and Mediated: Trauma and 'Sense Memory' in Son of Saul, Warsaw Uprising and Regina 14. Memory, History, Image, Forgetting: Obrona Warszawy ('The Defence of Warsaw') by Zygmunt Zaremba and Teresa Zarnower 15. Pictures and History. Art Exhibitions as a Tool for the Validation of Communist Authority in Poland 16. Hungary in Flames ¿ Photographic, Cinematic, and Literary Memories of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and Its Impact on the History of Ideas 17. Pictures for the Fathers: Baselitz's Heldenbilder as Anti-Images of the Socialist and Fascist Body 18. The Everyday in the GDR in Individual, Cultural and Political Memory 19. Between Memory and Myth: The Images of Joseph Stalin in New Russian Media