This paper poses the question of the compatibility between Enlightenment and the concept
of an autonoumous work of art that underlies notions of atsthetic education. The analysis …

NGV International26 Oct 07—17 Feb 08 Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition: Joseph Beuys &
Rudolf Steiner is an important loan exhibition that examines the connections between the art …

This study explores Heinrich Böll's' aesthetic thinking', as it is expressed in the author's
disparate and voluminous writings on literature. Böll's work in this field is situated in the multi …

Von Donnersmarck's feature film has been largely understood against the historical
background of the Stasi and its victims in the last years of the GDR, and the collapse of the …

» We can think of this aesthetic sea change […] as being inspired by a desire to reconnect
language to the social sphere […], to reenergize literature's social mission, its ability […] to …

A bold new theoretical analysis of literary modernism and its conception of and relation to
nature. Even after the end of modernism and postmodernism, grandiose fantasies of artifice …

The sudden flourishing of reflections on light, nature and poetry that occurred from the mid-
80s onwards in the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub …

Archaeologies of Modernity explores the shift from the powerful tradition of literary forms of
Bildung—the education of the individual as the self—to the visual forms of “Bildung”(from …

Moritz, through his lifelong engagement with Goethe's first novel, formulated the first modern
aesthetics of the instant, or Augenblick. I analyze this engagement against the background …

I In the third year of fascist hegemony in Germany and of his own exile from Germany, Bertolt
Brecht formulated programmatically his thoughts on an anti-fascist art and politics to which …