Anselm Kiefer
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This paper argues that Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetic project set in motion after the Holocaust is indissociable from thinking Utopia, with Adorno intuiting an emancipatory potential within the artwork. To do so, I explicate in detail... more
Anselm Kiefer
The Centre Pompidou
December 16th 2015 – April 18th 2016
The Centre Pompidou
December 16th 2015 – April 18th 2016
O artigo aborda a reflexão pictórica de Alsem Kiefer, tentando estabelecer uma relação com o pensamento filosófico, literário e imagético, sobre a concepção de catástrofe, a partir da concepção historiográfica proposta por Walter Benjamin... more
El arte proporciona una necesaria compensación sobre la reducción cientifica del mundo a la representación. Concebido aquí como producto del alma, es decir como comunión entre la inteligencia y el conocimiento del cuerpo, el arte es capaz... more
A review of the Anselm Kiefer show "Regeneration Series" at the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale and a consideration of critiques of Kiefer's art as sensationalizing the Holocaust.
How can be understand "the mania"? This question, the question about despotism of National Socialism in Germany became the cause for the early works of Anselm Kiefer. So Kiefer broke a taboo by making it evident that pictures have the... more
La Venere degli stracci (Vénus aux Chiffons), une oeuvre majeure de l'art de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle a fait partie de 'Michelangelo Pistoletto in Beirut', présentée en 2014 au Beirut Exhibition Center. Ce texte, publié dans le... more
The melancholic landscape is important to how we view landscape art and the following long research paper will look at how other artists and I express the emotion of melancholy through landscape. The artworks of nineteenth century... more
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, XXXIV. pp. 228-249.
Inspired by the winter 2014 Royal Academy exhibition of some of Anselm Kiefer's most significant works, the aim of this essay is to address the ways in which Kiefer represents human morality in relation to National Socialism, German... more
Modern art remains a mystery because most people – including art critics and even artists themselves – are unable to see beyond the imprisoning confines of classical fine art. Everything is judged in terms of beauty and technical skill,... more
Anselm Kiefer and Olafur Eliasson, even if divided by generational differences and the material of their art, they share a similar understanding of the function of the work as a narrative medium. The place where the work is exhibited, its... more
Feelings play an important part in general perception and in particular perception of pictures. Their relevance to the construction of meaning and actions that are cultural processes will be shown. By referring to traditions of philosophy... more
This is an early version of the essay. Please read the revised, expanded, improved, and completed version can be found as “Indiscernibly Bad: The Problem of Bad Painting/Good Art,” in Oxford Art Journal, volume 41, number 3, December... more
[Anticipiamo la recensione al volume L’arte sopravvivrà alle sue rovine (Feltrinelli, Milano, 2018) di Anselm Kiefer scritta da Arianna Lodeserto che sarà pubblicata nel n. 2 della rivista Altraparola di imminente pubblicazione.... more
The obsession with death is a constant and recurring theme in contemporary art. Not surprisingly, in some recent exhibitions, many works by Damien Hirst are displayed together with paintings and sculptures that belong to the tradition of... more
Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Anselm Kiefer. Libri tra i libri (Pistoia, 2017)
Uses Dewey's conception of art as experience to interpret the project of Hegel's aesthetics.
Recently, the oeuvre of the German artist Anselm Kiefer, brimming with references to historical events, Germanic, Nordic, Egyptian, and Middle Eastern mythology as well as assorted religions features intensified interest in Jewish... more
Uma vez mais parece que a modernização urbana se coloca em pauta, não só no Rio de Janeiro e em São Paulo, como na passagem do século XIX para o século XX, bem como em várias cidades brasileiras, produzindo reações de movimento socais.... more
Revue Sociopoétiques n°1, en ligne
Anselm Kiefer and Olafur Eliasson, even if divided by generational differences and the material of their art, they share a similar understanding of the function of the work as a narrative medium. The place where the work is exhibited, its... more
This paper explores essential qualities, possibilities and everyday relevance to living a transpersonal life. In more mainstream psychotherapeutic communities, inferences to living a transpersonal life are often viewed with suspicion... more
This text supports the exhibition, “Geographies I Have Not Lived in” and it is not to be considered as a text on its own without the exhibition. “Geographies I Have Not Lived in” is a text based on the artistic production process through... more
Interpreted both as a theoretical rationale and a practical custom, Iconoclasm has been often said to represent the common thread of German artist Anselm Kiefer's fifty-year-long activity. Nevertheless, none of the studies openly aimed to... more
Anselm Kiefer, for Velimir Khlebnikov. Fates of Nations Exhibition catalogue. St. Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, 2017, p. 201-209