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This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art

This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art

Richter, Gerhard

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PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryArt History

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ISBN10: 0262544148
ISBN13: 9780262544146
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Nov 29 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.20
Language: English
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 and in various modes of aesthetic production, including poetry, painting, music, film, literature, and photography. It is precisely in and through the work of art, Richter shows, that central elements of the thinking of world as world are negotiated in the most essential and moving ways.

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