Peter Weiss: Art and the Historiography of Resistance (original) (raw)

Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 2012

Abstract

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.

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