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Unconsolable contemporary : observing Gerhard Richter / Paul Rabinow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Description: 163 pages : Includes bibliography and notesContent type:
  • text
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.2 RIC 23
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 709.2 RIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002100634543

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.

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.

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