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L'art survivra à ses ruines = Die Kunst geht knapp nicht unter

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kiefer, Anselm, 1945- Author.
Series:
Leðcons inaugurales du Colláege de France L'art survivra áa ses ruines =
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
Art--Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Art and history.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (96 p.)
Place of Publication:
Collège de France 2011
[Place of publication not identified] Fayard 2011
Language Note:
French
Summary:
Je n’ai foi que dans l’art et, sans lui, je suis perdu. Souvent, j’enferme des tableaux dans l’obscurité d’un container, durant de longues années. Que font les tableaux ainsi enfermés pendant tout ce temps, jusqu’au moment où ils se rappellent à mon souvenir en me faisant signe ? Rien ? Certainement pas, puisqu’ils ont su rassembler des forces pour attirer l’attention sur eux. Après avoir libéré la toile de l’obscurité, je la repeins et une transition s’opère vers un autre état. L’autodestruction a toujours été le but le plus intime, le plus sublime de l’art, dont la vanité devient alors perceptible. Quelle que soit la force de l’attaque, et quand bien même il sera parvenu à ses limites, l’art survivra à ses ruines. I have faith in art alone and without it I am lost. Often I shut paintings away in a dark storage space for many long years. What do paintings shut away in this manner do all that time until they give me a sign to remind me they exist? Nothing? Certainly not since they manage to muster enough strength to attract attention to themselves. After having freed a painting from the dark, I repaint it and a transition towards another state of being takes place. Self-destruction has always been the most intimate and sublime aim of art whose vanity thus becomes visible. However strong the attack and whatever its success in achieving its aims, art will survive its own ruin.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
ISBN:
9782821814769
2821814763
9782722601222
2722601222

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