LEADER 04221nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910786195203321 005 20230803024808.0 010 $a0-8232-4543-8 010 $a0-8232-5077-6 010 $a0-8232-5031-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823245437 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275486 035 $a(EBL)3239774 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756877 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390541 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756877 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753576 035 $a(PQKB)10481267 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239774 035 $a(OCoLC)822024944 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19479 035 $a(DE-B1597)555130 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823245437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611590 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768982 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1132254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704535 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4704535 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818119 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275486 100 $a20120711d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sense of semblance$b[electronic resource] $ephilosophical analyses of Holocaust art /$fHenry W. Pickford 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8232-4540-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Judgment of Holocaust Art --$t2. Conflict and Commemoration --$t3. The Aesthetics of Historical Quotation --$t4. The Aesthetic-Historical Imaginary: --$tConclusion: The Morality of Holocaust Art --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"Holocaust artworks intuitively must fulfill at least two criteria: artistic (lest they be merely historical documents) and historical (lest they distort the Holocaust or become merely artworks). The Sense of Semblance locates this problematic within philosophical aesthetics, as a version of the conflict between aesthetic autonomy and heteronomy, and argues that Adorno's dialectic of aesthetic semblance describes the normative demand that artworks maintain a dynamic tension between the two. The Sense of Semblance aims to move beyond familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness of contemporary theories of meaning and understanding, including those from the analytic tradition. Pickford shows how the causal theory of names, the philosophy of tacit knowledge, the analytic philosophy of quotation, Sartre's theory of the imaginary, the epistemology of testimony, and Walter Benjamin's dialectical image can help explicate how individual artworks fulfill artistic and historical desiderata. In close readings of Celan's poetry, Holocaust memorials in Berlin, the quotational artist Heimrad Backer, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, Pickford offers interpretations that, in their precision, specificity, and clarity, inaugurate a dialogue between contemporary analytic philosophy and contemporary art. The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts 610 $aAdorno. 610 $aBäcker. 610 $aCelan. 610 $aGerman/Austrian literature. 610 $aHolocaust. 610 $aLanzmann. 610 $aSpiegelman. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $afilm. 610 $agraphic novel. 610 $amemorials. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts. 676 $a700/.458405318 686 $aLIT004210$aPHI001000$aHIS043000$2bisacsh 700 $aPickford$b Henry W$01141462 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786195203321 996 $aThe sense of semblance$93724554 997 $aUNINA