Tag Archives: peter eisenman

grey melancholia: looking for mourners

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Dave

“Where one comes from?” The work of art invested with the pathos of melencholia.Fake tears? The failure of the West as a humanizing endeavor? Dreams of resurrection decomposing. The numbing greyness of the decaying corpse, the failed experiment of regeneration … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged anselm kiefer, Gerhard Richter, peter eisenman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigmund Freud, Stendhal, Thomas Mann, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

traces of wiped-out existences

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dave

how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics. Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading →