Dispatches from Moments of Calm
by Alexander Kluge
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On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue--but things looked . . . different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary. That calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control over Die Welt for that single day, taking over and imprinting all thirty pages of the newspaper with his personal stamp: show more images from quiet moments amid unquiet times, the demotion of politics from its primary position, the privileging of the private and personal over the public, and, above all, artful, moving contrasts between sharpness and softness. He had created an unprecedented work of mass art. Among the many people to praise the work was writer Alexander Kluge, who instantly began writing stories to accompany Richter's images. This book, the second collaboration between Kluge and Richter, brings their stories and images together, along with new words and artworks created specifically for this volume. The result, Dispatches from Moments of Calm, is a beautiful, meditative interval in the otherwise unremitting press of everyday life, a masterpiece by two acclaimed artists working at the height of their powers. show lessTags
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Alexander Kluge, born in Germany in 1932, is a lawyer and a media magnate as well as a world-famous author and filmmaker (Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot, Germany in Autumn). Kluge has been called "that most enlightened of writers" (W. G. Sebald), "astounding, improbable, illuminating" (Jrgen Habermas), and "essential, brilliant" (Susan show more Sontag). He has won Germany's highest literary awards, including the Georg Bchner Prize. show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
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- PT2671 .L84 .N33 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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