Intelligence is the art of remaining faithful under shifting circumstances / Alexander Kluge, Anselm Kiefer ; translated by Alexander Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kluge, Alexander, 1932-2026, author.

Kiefer, Anselm, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Booth, Alexander, translator.

Series:

The German list

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Time.

Genre:

Novels

Translations

Physical Description:

vii, 223 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2026.

Language Note:

Text in English translated from German.

Summary:

What holds us together in times of uncertainty? For decades, artist Anselm Kiefer and filmmaker-writer Alexander Kluge have explored this question--both as friends and collaborators. This latest volume is a bold and poetic exchange of images and texts in which they delve into the idea of reliability and its relationship to the four great forces that shape our lives: power, love, truth, and money. Moving across history, myth, and the present day, Kiefer and Kluge ask: What is time? In a world of endless change, how do we hold on to what endures? Inspired by Hölderlin's call "to remain faithful under shifting circumstances," they use art to keep memory alive, invite the past into the present, and welcome the future before it arrives. Layered, provocative, and profoundly human, this new collaboration is a powerful meditation on what connects us--and what makes us endure.

Contents:

Tractate on money, love, power and truth / Four currencies that rule our lifespans

The house of whispers / Anselm Kiefer's painting accompany Maurice Genevoix into the Panthéon, the Memorial of the Immortals / 'Dedicated to Paul Celan'

Two very young arts : photography and film

Stories of exodus

Finnegans wake and the construction site of words

30 films for Anselm Kiefer

'Something that wants to be born already lives amongst us' / Stories on the occasion of Anselm Kiefer's block of work / 'The unborn. Les non-nès'

A as in Antaeus / D as in Daphne / 'I'm going to paint someone from Altdorf' / 'Superstrings'

Hortus philosophorum / Dr Robert Fludd, Oxford

'Building a house of trust' / Hölderlin's Pindar fragments / 'Time tumbles down from the stars'.

Notes:

Originally published as Klugheit ist die Kunst, unter verschiedenen Umständen getreu zu bleiben © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin, 2024.

ISBN:

9781803096001

1803096004

OCLC:

1538481013

Publisher Number:

CIPO000369255