Archaeologies of modernity : avant-garde Bildung /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rumold, Rainer
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	German literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Painting, German > 20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Germany > History > 20th century. Modernism (Aesthetics) > Germany > History > 20th century. Art, Primitive > Influence.

Table of Contents:

Decentered corporeality : metropolitan and regional image zones of play: Archaeologies of modernity : toward Bildung without a self ; Corporeal topographies of the image zone : from Oskar Kokoschka's murder of metaphor to Georges Bataille's Acéphale ; Kafka's nomad images : from multilingual borderland to global experience ; Regional sights and sounds : Jean/Hans Arp's Alsatian hobbyhorse play and Franz Kafka's whistling mice
The I-less eye : primitivist archaeologies and images of modernity: Archaeologies of modernity in Transition and Documents, Paris 1929-30 : Eugene Jolas, Carl Einstein, Georges Bataille ; Seeing African sculpture : Carl Einstein's "ethnographie du blanc" ; Painting as a language : why not? : Carl Einstein in Documents
Toward the dissolution of modernity : the politics of (auto-)formation of the real: Prelude : forms of the singular versus Georges Bataille's Informe ; Kurt Schwitters's forme indéfinie and Merzbau arche-texture versus vertical architecture ; Walter Benjamin : the intoxicated physiognomist : writing Denkbilder in the name of Ariadne ; Benjamin's urban arche-texture : thought-images toward the dissolution of the labyrinth of phantasmagoria
Conclusion: The politics of (auto-)formation of the real from the visual unconscious : Einstein and Benjamin.