Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois
Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois
What is a horizon? A line where land meets sky? The end of the world or the beginning of perception? In this brilliant, engaging, and stimulating history, Didier Maleuvre journeys to the outer reache
Noting the paradox that art museums preserve history and culture by removing artifacts from their historical context and locating them in a timeless abstraction, Maleuvre (French and comparative liter
From its inception in the early nineteenth century, the museum has been more than a mere historical object; it has manufactured an image of history. In collecting past artifacts, the museum gives shap
"Once Gods walked among humans, but, friends, we have come too late! The Gods are . . . up there in another world." Thus the poet Hölderlin evoked the godlessness in modern life, which, ruled by reaso
