This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art

by Gerhard Richter

An engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created--a world that perishes or decays over time--and the new world that the artwork opens up.

Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is created, that is, a world that over time perishes or decays beyond interpretive understanding, and the new world that the artwork opens up. The multiple relations between these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262544148
• ISBN13: 9780262544146
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 7.2"