This Great Allegory
On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art
$79.87
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2023
Summary
An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created-a world that perishes or decays over time-and the new world that the artwork opens up.
Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is created, that is, a world that over time perishes or decays beyond interpretive understanding, and the new world that the artwork opens up. The multiple relations between these worlds are examined in a number of central thinkers a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544146 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262544148 |
| Author: | Gerhard Richter |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 139mm |
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“This Great Allegory generously invites us to become part of the interpretive project it develops and provides a host of examples as to how we might do so. Academia is rarely compared to a work of art and today betrays far too many symptoms of decay, but the argumentative richness of this book gives this reader hope that our discourses still have the potential to open up new intellectual horizons.”
—Monatshefte
“At a time of fracturing information sources, where customisation is shifting from a mode of consumerism into a metaphysical horizon, it might be that the very notion of a shared world is quaint, let alone the idea that the work of art might be able to open up such a world. Yet it is for precisely that reason that Richter’s meditations on world-opening in a time of world-decay speak to today’s most urgent concerns.”
—David Nowell Smith, Modern Language Notes
About The Author
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is the L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among his most recent books are Uncontainable Legacies - Theses on Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Inheritance and Thinking with Adorno - The Uncoercive Gaze.
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