To figure, or not to figure : the iconoclastic proscription and its theoretical legacy

Author

Saltzman, Lisa

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Jewish identity in modern art history

Author (monograph)

Soussloff, Catherine M. (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Jewish identity in modern art history. 1999, 67-84, 3 ill.

Publisher

University of California Press, Berkeley (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Reflects on the Second Commandment, the appropriateness of Jewish imagery after the Holocaust, and the implications of Adorno's 1949 dictum "After Auschwitz, to write a poem is barbaric." Contends that "After Auschwitz" the biblical prohibition on images - what could be termed a position of iconoclasm - experienced a theoretical renaissance. Focusing on the paintings of Anselm Kiefer, Saltzman writes "from his paintings involving Aaron, to those of the Iconoclastic Controversy of Byzantium [Bilderstreit], to those of Sulamith and Lilith, Kiefer immerses us in the theoretical and aesthetic terrain of the biblical prohibition on image making. He does so not only through the textual referents of his titles, but through visual enactment, the contesting strategies of photography, painting, writing, and burning, aesthetically embodying the dialectic of figurality and discourse, image and word, representation and iconoclasm".

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1945-present -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Germany
• Iconoclasm
• Jews
• Aniconism
• Judaism
• Mixed media
• Kiefer, Anselm, b.1945
• Germany
• 1900-2000
• Ten commandments

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1945-présent -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Allemagne
• Iconoclasme
• Juifs
• Aniconisme
• Judaïsme
• Mixed media
• Kiefer, Anselm, n.1945
• Allemagne
• 1900-2000
• Dix Commandements

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19991001-00211869

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