The Persistence of Memory: Text and Image in the Art of Arnold Daghani
May 7, 2009 by Deborah Schultz
Filed under Art
According to those who knew him best, the artist Arnold Daghani (1909–1985) had an exceptionally retentive memory for events, names, dates and places. For him, as for other survivors, memory became what Laurence Langer, in his study Holocaust Testimonies, calls an ‘insomniac faculty’, implying that the process of remembering is not one of reviving memories, for ‘there is no need to revive what has never died’. Read more
