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Konsthistorisk tidskrift, Jun 1, 2012
The Aesthetics of Resistance, the magnum opus of the German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss, concerns ... more The Aesthetics of Resistance, the magnum opus of the German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss, concerns nine years in the life of a fictional character moving between Germany, Spain, France and Sweden immediately before, during and after the Second World War. Thematically, however, the book is organised around extended meditations on historical works of visual art. This essay will consider the relation between these meditations and the narrative of the novel, seeing the novel as an ambitious attempt to generate historical knowledge of and through pictures. It will also look at the relation between Weiss's project and other forms of art historiography informed by the New Left in Germany, in particular the younger generation of art historians to emerge in the wake of the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. © Taylor and Francis 2012.
New German Critique, 1999
The history of art is no longer the history of styles. The notion of style, which once seemed to ... more The history of art is no longer the history of styles. The notion of style, which once seemed to define the discipline, has loosened its grasp on our thoughts about art; many of the most powerful minds of the field have subjected it to critique; it is not adequate to our thinking about ...
Till Carin som har sett allt detta forrut, och Julius och Benjamin som redan ser med framtidens o... more Till Carin som har sett allt detta forrut, och Julius och Benjamin som redan ser med framtidens ogon ... TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword viu X FASHION DISTRACTION CONCEPTS OF STYLE IN WOLFFLIN AND ADORNO I Cathedrals and Shoes 2 Novelty 7 ...
In order, therefore, to find an analogy we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. The... more In order, therefore, to find an analogy we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. There the products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own, which enter into relations both with each other and with the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men's hands. I call this the fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour as soon as they are produced as commodities, and is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities.
... Utopia for sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture. ... Their most explo... more ... Utopia for sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture. ... Their most explosive conclusions address the degree to which some aspects of Bauhaus design continued to flourish during the Third Reich before becoming one of the cold wars most enduring emblems ...
Konsthistorisk tidskrift, Jun 1, 2012
The Aesthetics of Resistance, the magnum opus of the German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss, concerns ... more The Aesthetics of Resistance, the magnum opus of the German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss, concerns nine years in the life of a fictional character moving between Germany, Spain, France and Sweden immediately before, during and after the Second World War. Thematically, however, the book is organised around extended meditations on historical works of visual art. This essay will consider the relation between these meditations and the narrative of the novel, seeing the novel as an ambitious attempt to generate historical knowledge of and through pictures. It will also look at the relation between Weiss's project and other forms of art historiography informed by the New Left in Germany, in particular the younger generation of art historians to emerge in the wake of the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. © Taylor and Francis 2012.
New German Critique, 1999
The history of art is no longer the history of styles. The notion of style, which once seemed to ... more The history of art is no longer the history of styles. The notion of style, which once seemed to define the discipline, has loosened its grasp on our thoughts about art; many of the most powerful minds of the field have subjected it to critique; it is not adequate to our thinking about ...
Till Carin som har sett allt detta forrut, och Julius och Benjamin som redan ser med framtidens o... more Till Carin som har sett allt detta forrut, och Julius och Benjamin som redan ser med framtidens ogon ... TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword viu X FASHION DISTRACTION CONCEPTS OF STYLE IN WOLFFLIN AND ADORNO I Cathedrals and Shoes 2 Novelty 7 ...
In order, therefore, to find an analogy we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. The... more In order, therefore, to find an analogy we must take flight into the misty realm of religion. There the products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own, which enter into relations both with each other and with the human race. So it is in the world of commodities with the products of men's hands. I call this the fetishism which attaches itself to the products of labour as soon as they are produced as commodities, and is therefore inseparable from the production of commodities.
... Utopia for sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture. ... Their most explo... more ... Utopia for sale: The Bauhaus and Weimar Germany's consumer culture. ... Their most explosive conclusions address the degree to which some aspects of Bauhaus design continued to flourish during the Third Reich before becoming one of the cold wars most enduring emblems ...