TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rabinow,Paul
TI  - Unconsolable contemporary: observing Gerhard Richter 
U1  - 709.2 RIC 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Richter, Gerhard,
KW  - Art and philosophy
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - ART / History / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction: form and Birkenau -- Object: the contemporary -- Constellations: writing and imaging strife -- Assembling: abet and facilitate -- Composition: techne and pathos -- Contemporary consolations: unconsoled -- Restive endings
N2  - Paul Rabinow continues his explorations of ""a philosophic anthropology of the contemporary"" by examining the work of German painter Gerhard Richter. Defining the contemporary as a moving ratio in which the modern becomes historical, Rabinow uses Richter's work to illustrate how meaning is created within the contemporary
ER  -