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Alexander Jakimovic / Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
Zentrum und Peripherie
Cologne 1993ISBN 3-9802827-0-8
Two lectures on the loss of central values, held at the Vienna AICA Art Critics Congress in 1992. |
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Volume 2 |
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Eduard Beaucamp
Ästhetische Bußpredigten
Mit Antworten von L. Gerdes, J.-C. Ammann und W. Schmalenbach
Cologne 1994ISBN 3-9802827-2-4
Eduard Beaucamp supports the thesis that the Modern is dead and fundamental, radical changes in the visual arts are not to be expected. |
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Volume 3 |
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Günter Feist
Option Gegenwehr
Korrektive zur Kunstpolitik in der DDR
Cologne 1995ISBN 3-9802827-3-2
Feist's lecture deals with events that accompanied the second banning of the Avantgarde in Germany and depicts how politics in the GDR handled the creators of these »disruptive images«. |
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Volume 4 |
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Sabine Schütz
Der "Lackmus-Test"
Zur Kunstkritik am Beispiel Kiefer
Cologne 1996ISBN 3-9802827-4-0
Art criticism's overreaction is the striking characteristic of reception when it comes to Anselm Kiefer. Sabine Schütz investigates this polarity, taking international criticism into consideration as well. |
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Volume 5 |
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Heinrich Hahne
Sprache und Kunstkritik
Mit Denkversuchen von Kurt Leonhard
Cologne 1997ISBN 3-9802827-7-5
Hahne expects art critics to be capable of not verbally missing the subject. The correspondence of word and work structure is called for. |
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Volume 6 |
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Andreas Hüneke / Carl Linfert
"Entartete Kunst"
Kommentar 1989/1996 zum Kommentar 1937
Cologne 1997ISBN 3-9802827-9-1
In Linfert's text from 1937 Hüneke recognizes his own camouflaged writings from the GDR era and frees the famous critic colleague from the fellow traveler's odium during the NS period. |
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Volume 7 |
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Hanno Reuther
Himmel & Hölle: Beuys
Vier kritische Umrundungen 1977 bis 1987
Cologne 1998ISBN 3-9805962-4-9
In this volume with texts on Beuys spanning over a decade, it is not an artist's development which is depicted but rather that of a critic and his changing argumentative positions. |
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Volume 8 |
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Klaus Honnef
Wege der Kunstkritik
Texte zwischen Theorie und Künstlerlob
Cologne 1999ISBN 3-9805962-5-7
Honnef rounds up his history of art criticism with the suggestion: criticism should not only deal with art-art but must also do this with visual culture in general. |
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Volume 9 |
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Stefan Römer
Fake als Original
Ein Problem für die Kunstkritik
Cologne 1999ISBN 3-9805962-6-5
The author deals with art criticism's far-reaching helplessness with regard to Appropriation Art, an art that - as with Sherrie Levine - openly appropriates existing art. |
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Volume 10 |
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Wilfried Dörstel
Fabris kunstkritische Maximen
Der Wiedereintritt von Albrecht Fabris Kritik-Theorie
Cologne 2000ISBN 3-9805962-7-3
Albrecht Fabri sees art criticism as a complement to artwork. The critic is productive based on others' productivity, as long as others' productivity has left something open. |
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Volume 11 |
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Andreas Hüneke
Der Fall Robert Scholz
Kunstberichte unterm Hakenkreuz
Cologne 2001ISBN 3-9805962-9-X
Robert Scholz was art critic for the »Völkischer Beobachter« during the Hitler regime, head of the Headquarters for Fine Art under the race-ideologist Rosenberg, and museum director in Halle. For him, it was clearly about »having a share in the power«, according to Andreas Hüneke. His texts about art followed the Nazi ideology - even after 1945. |
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Volume 12 |
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Stefan Koldehoff
Meier-Graefes van Gogh
Wie Fiktionen zu Fakten werden
Cologne/Nördlingen 2002
ISBN 3-936363-05-6
To this day, many of the legends about Van Gogh which were "invented" by his first biographer, Julius Meier-Graefe, have managed to hold on in the literature about art. The author and editor plead for a critical approach to previous art texts. |
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Volume 13 |
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Walter Vitt
Palermo starb auf Kurumba
Wider die Schlampigkeiten in Kunstpublikationen (Palermo died on Kurumba. Against the carelessness in art publications)
Köln/Nördlingen 2003
ISBN 3-936363-10-2
The author laments the numerous biographical and technical mistakes found in artists’ lexica and catalogs which, via uncritical reproduction, mutate into "truths" due to the frequency of their appearances. Vitt no longer trusts the reliability of lexicographic work in the field of the arts.
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Volume 14
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Wieland Schmied
Das Rätsel de Chirico (The Mystery of de Chirico) - Zerstörte Legenden, korrigierte Daten, gefälschte Bilder
Köln/Nördlingen 2004
ISBN 3-936363-23-4
All his life, the painter Giorgio de Chirico wove himself into legends and mystifications. He also believed in them. Wieland Schmied pursues
many of these legends and attempts, successfully, to solve the mystery of de Chirico.
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Volume 15
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Isgard Kracht
Franz Marc – „Entartet“, aber deutsch
(Franz Marc - "Degenerate," but German)
Kunstberichte unterm Hakenkreuz II
(Art Reportages Under the Swastika II)
Nördlingen 2005
ISBN 3-936363-32-3
The second essay, after Hüneke's "The Case of Robert Scholz" (volume 11 of the edition), which deals with art reporting during the Hitler regime. The author documents the long years of indecision regarding the question as to if Marc in fact created "degenerate" images, or was a "German" artist.
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