World-Changing Rage

Baselitz, Georg; Kluge, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0857426575 / ISBN 13: 9780857426574

Published by Seagull Books, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: World-Changing Rage
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857426575
• ISBN 13: 9780857426574
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

An exploration by an artist and writer duo of a fundamental constant in the history of humankind: rage, and its impact on the world.

Rage and obstinacy are close relatives—and fundamental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, these two accomplished German creators explore links and fractures between two cultures through two media: ink and watercolor on paper, and the written word.
 
The long history of humankind is also a history of rage, fury, and wrath. In this book, Baselitz and Kluge explore the dynamism of rage and its potential to rapidly grow and erupt into blazing protests, revolution, and war. The authors also reflect the melancholy archetype of the Western hero (and his deconstruction) against the very different heroic ethos of the Japanese antipodes. More powerful than rage, they argue, is wit, as displayed in the work of Japanese master painter Katsushika Hokusai. In this volume, Baselitz repeatedly draws an image of Hokusai, depicting him with an outstretched finger, as if pointing towards Europe in a mixture of rage, wrath, irony, and laughter, all-too-fleetingly evident in his expression. A unique collaboration between two of the world’s leading intellectuals, World-Changing Rage will leave every reader with a deeper appreciation of the human condition.

About the Authors

Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement.

Katy Derbyshire is a translator and coeditor of no man’s land, an online literary magazine of contemporary German writing in English.