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This great allegory : on world-decay and world-opening in the work of art
- Title
- This great allegory : on world-decay and world-opening in the work of art / Gerhard Richter.
- Author
- Richter, Gerhard, 1967-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
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- Description
- 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm
- Summary
- "An exploration of the idea of the world in art (both an image of the world that has perished, and another opened up by the artwork) as revealed through a number of seminal philosophical thinkers as well as through assorted modes of aesthetic production, including painting, film, photography, poetry and music"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Work of Art Between World-Decay and World-Opening (Heidegger, Hölderlin) -- Of Cave Worlds and the Birth of the Artwork in Painting and Film (Blanchot, Bataille, Werner Herzog) -- The Work for a Time Without Me and the World Stepping Toward Us (Levinas, Celan) -- Inheriting the World of the Subcutaneous Musical Artwork (Adorno, Schönberg) -- A World of Gray: Color, Grayness, and Utopia in the Work of Art (Adorno) -- Conjoining the Intimate with the Infinite: On World-Decay in the Photographic Work of Art (Benjamin, Andrew Moore) -- Troubled Origins: Accounting for Oneself as World-Creation (Derrida, Botho Strauss, Didier Eribon) -- Keep Yourself Alive: The World of Life Death and the Work of Mourning (Derrida, Nietzsche, Kafka) -- Changing the World Is Not What You Think (Marx) -- Coda: Intermundia, Finitude.
- Call Number
- N8262.85
- ISBN
- 9780262544146
- 0262544148
- LCCN
- 2021058946
- 40031560431
- OCLC
- on1301903393
- 1301903393
- SCSB-14412268
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries