Title: Crisis and repetition : essays on art and culture /
Authors: Armstrong, Kate, 1971-
Publisher: Michigan State University Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern.; Repetition (Aesthetics); Death of God theology.; Art, Modern
Abstract: "Armstrong examines the philosophies of the Marquis de Sade, Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and the artwork of Andy Warhol, Michael Heizer, Kasimir Malevich, Ad Reinhardt, and Barnett Newman, arguing that, in reaction to the crisis of modernity, these writers and artists are involved in the process of refiguring the divine. Armstrong views these artists and their strategies in relation to "death of God" theology to demonstrate how, through inverting or shifting the transcendent and the immanent, they are attempting to refigure the divine. Crisis and Repetition: Essays on Art and Culture explores the cultural crisis that ensues from the transformation or displacement of a transcendent God.
Contents: Repetition and utopia in Warhol and the Marquis de Sade -- Kierkegaard, history, and modern art -- Warhol and kenosis -- The unrepresentable event in Heidegger and Heizer.