The Sense of Semblance Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art
ISBN: 9780823245406 | 0823245403
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Fordham University Press
Pub. Date: 1/9/2013
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Holocaust artworks intuitively must fulfill at least two criteria: artistic (lest they be merely historical documents) and historical (lest they distort the Holocaust or become merely artworks). The Sense of Semblance locates this problematic within philosophical aesthetics, as a version ofthe conflict between aesthetic autonomy and heteronomy, and argues that Adorno's dialectic of aesthetic semblance describes the normative demand that artworks maintain a dynamic tension between the two.The Sense of Semblance aims to move beyond familiar debat... MORE
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: The Judgment of Holocaust Art | p. 1 |
| Mandelshtam's Meridian: On Paul Celan's Aesthetic-Historical Materialism | p. 17 |
| Conflict, and Commemoration: Two Berlin Memorials | p. 74 |
| The Aesthetics of Historical Quotation: On Heimrad Bäcker's "System nachschrift" | p. 137 |
| The Aesthetic-Historical Imaginary: On Shoah and Maus | p... MORE |
| Conclusion: The Morality of Holocaust Art | p. 204 |
| Notes | p. 211 |
| Bibliography | p. 253 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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Henry W. Pickford is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the editor and translator of Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords by Theodor W. Adorno.
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