Benjamin, Andrew creator text New York Routledge 1991 monographic eng

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217 p. CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of illustrations INTRODUCTION: INAUGURATING REPETITION 1 INTERPRETING REFLECTIONS: PAINTING MIRRORS 2 SPACING AND DISTANCING 3 BETRAYING FACES: LUCIAN FREUD'S SELF-PORTRAITS 4 PRESENT REMEMBRANCE: ANSELM KIEFER'S ICONOCLASTIC CONTROVERSY 5 KITAJ AND THE QUESTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY 6 MALEVICH AND THE AVANT-GARDE 7 EISENMAN AND THE HOUSING OF TRADITION 8 PLURALISM, THE COSMOPOLITAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE 9 THE DECLINE OF ART: BENJAMIN'S AURA 10 TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE: WALTER BENJAMIN'S 'ON SOME MOTIFS IN BAUDELAIRE' 11 DESCARTES' FABLE: THE DISCOURSE DE LA METHODE 12 THE REDEMPTION OF VALUE: LAPORTE, WRITING AS ABKURZUNG Select bibliography Index / Andrew Benjamin English Art,--Mimesis--Avant-Grade 701.17 B4381 0415066271 (pbk) 260421 20260421170407.0