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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Decentered corporeality: metropolitan and regional image zones of play -- Archaeologies of modernity: toward bildung without a self -- Corporeal topographies of the image zone: from Oskar Kokoschka's murder of metaphor to Georges Bataille's Acephale -- Kafka's nomad images: from multilingual borderland to global experience -- Regional sights and sounds: Jean/Hans Arp's Alsatian hobbyhorse play and Franz Kafka's whistling mice -- Part II. The I-less eye: primitivist archaeologies and images of modernity -- Archaeologies of modernity in transition and documents, Paris 1929-30: Eugene Jolas, Carl Einstein, Georges Bataille -- Seeing African sculpture: Carl Einstein's "ethnographie du blanc" -- Painting as a language: why not? Carl Einstein in documents -- Part III. Toward the dissolution of modernity: the politics of (auto- )formation of the real prelude: forms of the singular versus Georges Bataille's informe -- Kurt Schwitters's forme indefinie and Merzbau arche-texture versus vertical architecture -- Walter Benjamin: the intoxicated physiognomist: writing denkbilder in the name of Ariadne -- Benjamin's urban arche-texture: thought-images toward the dissolution of the labyrinth of phantasmagoria -- Conclusion: the politics of (auto- )formation of the real from the visual unconscious: Einstein and Benjamin. |
| Local Note |
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Art -- Influence.
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Art -- Influence. |
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Art. |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) |
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Germany. |
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20th century |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
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Painting, German -- 20th century.
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Painting, German. |
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature. |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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1900-1999 |
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History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rumold, Rainer. Archaeologies of modernity. Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014046445 |
| ISBN |
9780810131118 (electronic book) |
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0810131110 (electronic book) |
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0810131129 |
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9780810131125 |
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9780810131101 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0810131102 |
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