Writing about poetry is at the same time a difficult and interesting endeavour because it requires complete freedom from the constraints of both form and methodology. Following the rules of traditional theoretical research, writing within the field of poetics often seems pretentious and somehow forced, similar to how aesthetic writing about music, dance or theatrical arts usually considers it impossible to penetrate the unknown ‘creative zone’ and to translate that moment even into simple language, let alone into an academic explanation of something that does not have the power or desire to directly address and contemplate the inexplicable.
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The Nazi Myth by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy
Translated by Brian Holmes In The Nazi Myth Lacoue-Labarthe together with Jean-Luc Nancy give us one of the most important work on understanding the nature of Fascism and Nazism generating what they call a “fusion of politics and art,” or as they also put it, “the production of the political as a work of art.” …
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Španija između smrti i rađanja – Spain between death and birth (Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939) by Oto Bihalji–Merin
“Francisco Goya through ‘Dos de Mayo’ preserved the memory of death in the streets of Madrid. His skepticism is more sarcastic, his protest is more passionate, his smile is more furious than to anyone who was speaking trough art before him. His paintings are a revelation of the horrible world of tyranny and oppression of …
Theses on the Art of Today
Variations on Badiou’s Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art The times of great anticipation and prophecy of the future have passed long ago, and we have all been in a time that is neither present nor past nor future in some time we have called a time of crisis. So, art in this time of crisis, …
Max Ernst – Europe After the Rain (1940-42)