Fire on the earth : Anselm Kiefer and the postmodern world

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Fire on the earth : Anselm Kiefer and the postmodern world

John C. Gilmour

(The arts and their philosophies / edited by Joseph Margolis)

Temple University Press, 1990

  • : cloth : alk. paper
  • : paper : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-197)

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内容説明

Born in 1945, the German painter Anselm Kiefer "represents the concerns and insecurities of postwar European intellectuals, confronted by a questionable past and a future so threatening that it tends to create despair." In this philosophical case study of Kiefer's work, John C. Gilmour addresses a crisis that is common to twentieth-century art and aesthetic theory: the loss of confidence in the ideals and world view inherited from the Enlightenment. Modernism's historical moment has passed, he claims, and Kiefer's art which was the subject of a recent national exhibition reveals the contours of an emerging postmodern vision.Considering the writings of Jameson, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Nietzsche, among others, Gilmour shows how Kiefer's use of literary, mythological, and other cultural texts parallels the intertextual approach common among postmodern theorists. At the same time, the artist's cosmological questioning adds a dimension lacking among many of postmodernism's leading proponents. The author interprets Kiefer's art as a site where distinctions between modern and postmodern senses of representation, history, cosmology, and nature become thematic. He addresses individual paintings and the book includes forty-four illustrations and gives the historical, biographical, art-critical, and philosophical setting for each piece. John C. Gilmour is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the B.A. in Fine Arts Program at Alfred University.

目次

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Representation and Simulation in Postmodern Art 1. Windows, Mirrors, and Grids 2. The Crisis of Modernity: Reality and Hyperreality 3. Original Representation: Theatre of Cruelty Painting Part II: The Artist's Texts and Cultural Dissemination 4. The Death of the Subject and the Birth of the Text 5. Narrative Knowledge and Cultural Memory 6. Cosmological and Mythical Narratives Part III: Humanity in the Postmodern Moment 7. Technology and Historical Progress in the Postmodern Moment 8. The Postmodern Habitat Notes Bibliography Index

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