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Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), ...
The Cube and the Face
The Cube, as we can see, isn’t one. It is an irregular polyhedron which catalogues describe as having twelve sides — that nice figure, twelve, a destinal figure if ever there was one, which willfully evokes Mallarmé’s throw of the dice, at the very moment that the clock strikes twelve at midnight, in the dark house of Igitur. One can imagine that Giacometti wanted to give a unique volume to the twelve facets — six and six — of two cubes added together: a unique architecture...
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Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen
Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)
Noch einmal anders
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Essays on Photography by Siegfried Kracauer
Siegfried Kracauer, Philippe Despoix (ed.), ...
The Past's Threshold
There can be no doubt, however, that in Kracauer’s texts published at the turn of the 1920s and the 1930s from his position as an editor of the cultural pages at the daily newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, then in the 1950s during his American period, he sketches out a theorisation of photography that can be described as groundbreaking. But it is also true that most of his works overlap, in more than one way, with this medium of reproduction or that...
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