Atlas Gerharda Richtera: archiwum anomiczne

• Authors: Benjamin Buchloh

Title variants

EN

GERHARD RICHTER’S ATLAS: THE ANOMIC ARCHIVE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

During the twentieth century, an age of fading belief in empiricism and aspirations towards a comprehensible completeness of positivistic systems of knowledge, the term “atlas” assumed a metaphorical significance. The most prominent example of this anti-positivistic tendency is the Mnemosyne Atlas – a monumental project whose purpose is gathering identifiable forms of collective memory. The several decades later Atlas by Gerhard Richter appears to treat photography and its assorted practices as one of the instruments with whose assistance collective anomy, amnesia and denial are socially encoded.

Keywords

EN

Aby Warburg; Gerhard Richter

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 2-3(293-294)
• Pages: 184-194

Contributors

author

Benjamin Buchloh