Posts Tagged ‘Faust’

Anselm Kiefer

Wednesday, February 1st, 1989

Anselm Kiefer uses the lan­guage of mod­ern art to rewrite the kind of grandiose nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry his­to­ry paint­ing that mod­ern art reject­ed. He paints a rag­ing ele­gy for the fail­ure of rea­son and civ­i­liza­tion to over­come the evil that is part of human nature. Yet for Kiefer, only the mag­ic of art can build some­thing beau­ti­ful out of the wreck of rea­son and the fail­ure of history. 

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