Unconsolable contemporary : observing Gerhard Richter / Paul Rabinow.
Material type: TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Description: 163 pages : Includes bibliography and notesContent type:- text
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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.