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Form as Revolt
The German writer and art critic Carl Einstein (1885-1940) has long been acknowledged as an important figure in the history of modern art, and yet he is often sidelined as an enigma. InForm as RevoltSebastian Zeidler recovers Einstein's multifaceted career, offering the first comprehensive intellectual biography of Einstein in English.
Einstein first emerged as a writer of experimental prose through his involvement with the anarchist journalDie Aktion. After a few limited forays into art criticism, he burst onto the art scene in 1915 with his bookNegro Sculpture, at once a formalist intervention into the contemporary theory and practice of European sculpture and a manifesto for the sophistication of African art. Einstein would go on to publish seminal texts on the cubist paintings of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. His contributions to the surrealist magazineDocuments(which Einstein cofounded with Georges Bataille), including writings on Picasso and Paul Klee, remain unsurpassed in their depth and complexity. In a series of close visual analyses-illustrated with major works by Braque, Picasso, and Klee-Zeidler retrieves the theoretical resources that Einstein brought to bear on their art.Form as Revoltshows us that to rediscover Einstein's art criticism is to see the work of great modernist artists anew through the eyes of one of the most gifted left-wing formalists of the twentieth century.
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To the collector belong the spoils : modernism and the art of appropriation
\"Rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice that flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives and examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects through three author-collectors, Walter Benjamin, Carl Einstein, and Henry James\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Poetik des Transvisuellen
Das aktuelle Spektrum der Literaturwissenschaft ist durch eine komparatistische und kulturwissenschaftliche Öffnung mit mannigfachen interdisziplinären Anschlüssen gekennzeichnet. Die Reihe spectrum Literaturwissenschaft versteht sich als Forum dieser pluralistischen Neuformierung der Literaturwissenschaft; sie präsentiert Studien von methodisch innovativem, häufig komparatistischem Zuschnitt, deren Ergebnisse über enge nationalphilologische Horizonte hinaus von exemplarischer Bedeutung sind.
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Philosophy of Sculpture
Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Some of the essays are historically situated, while others are more straightforwardly conceptual. All of the essays, however, pay strict attention to actual sculptural examples in their discussions. This reflects the overall aim of the volume to not merely “apply” philosophy to sculpture, but rather to test the philosophical approaches taken in tandem with deep analyses of sculptural examples.
There is an array of philosophical problems unique to sculpture, namely certain aspects of its three-dimensionality, physicality, temporality, and morality. The authors in this volume respond to a number of challenging philosophical questions related to these characteristics. Furthermore, while the focus of most of the essays is on Western sculptural traditions, there are contributions that feature discussion of sculptural examples from non-Western sources. Philosophy of Sculpture is the first full-length book treatment of the philosophical significance of sculpture in English. It is a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars across aesthetics, art history, history, performance studies, and visual studies.
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Carl Einstein y el cubismo como método historiográfico
El presente trabajo constituye un primer avance de estudio sobre la obra del escritor, historiador de arte, crítico y anarquista alemán Carl Einstein. Propone un análisis de la matriz teórico metodológica sobre la que instituye su singular concepción historiográfica del arte del siglo XX con foco en el periodo que va desde el despuntar del movimiento expresionista alemán a la consolidación vanguardista del cubismo. La hipótesis planteada sostiene que Einstein encuentra en el cubismo (en especial en las obras de Picasso, Braque y Gris) no un \"objeto\" de investigación sino un \"método\" para su modelo de historización crítica del arte del siglo XX.
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Poetik des Transvisuellen: Carl Einsteins \ecriture visionnaire\ und die asthetische Moderne
\"Transvisual\" is a succinct term that describes a core theme dominating all of Carl Einstein's work across different creative periods and textual genres. In placing his critiques of vision and language in the context of contemporary discourse, it becomes apparent that with his poetics of the transvisual, Einstein took on an important and unique position in the complex discursive network of modernity.
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Looking for Africa in Carl Einstein's Negerplastik
The Latvian painter Voldemars Matvejs and the German author Carl Einstein worked virtually simultaneously and without knowledge of one another. For both men, the claim to be the \"discoverer of African art\" has helped shaped their image as culture heroes suitable for canonization in the 21st century. Simon Gikandi warns that much has been written on Picasso and primitivism but little on his specific engagement with Africa. By so doing, he argues that scholars replicate Picasso's own strategies in separating works of art from the people and societies that produced them and perhaps for the same reason: to minimiz the constitutive role of Africa in the making of modernism.\" The questions asked of Picasso need to be posed for the larger community of European modernists fascinated by art objects from other parts of the world. Here, Strother takes up Gikandi's challenge to query what the critic Einstein believed about Africans and what his sources were.
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Carl Einstein y el umbral heurístico de la pintura/Carl Einstein and the heuristic threshold of Painting
Throughout history the relationship between philosophy and painting has drawn round trips that have borne fruit in theories and works closely intertwined. Particular interest have, in this sense, the contributions of the German theorist Carl Einstein, prominent member of the first Vanguard and author of a highly original reading of the painting marked by an acute antikantism and by the Empiriocriticism of Ernst Mach. According to Einstein, the simultaneous dilution of subject and object in the process of creation and reception of painting is capable of operating major changes in the individual and, in full harmony with the ideals of the Vanguard, in the very configuration of reality.
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ARTE Y ACCIÓN POLÍTICA: EL INTEMPESTIVO CARL EINSTEIN/Art and politic action: the untimely Carl Einstein
In this article we seek to determine the aim of Carl Einstein's art as an object that determines a world view. We'll draw up a theoretical and biographical way, showing how the work of art is always a vital way and, therefore with political functions, what is revealed in the same author's biography. The aim is to show how the conception of work of art is an operative concept in terms of life itself.
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