Uncontainable Legacies: Theses on Intellectual, Cultural, and Political Inheritance

by Gerhard Richter

Book Overview

In a series of evocatively titled theses, including 'Wrinkles', 'Inheriting a Feeling', 'Weight of the World' and 'Making Treasures Speak', Gerhard Richter engages the quintessentially human dilemma of how to receive an intellectual, cultural or political inheritance. In dialogue with philosophers including Heraclitus, Arendt and Derrida; writers such as Montaigne, H?lderlin, Kafka and Knausgaard; artists such as Michelangelo, Picasso, Anselm Kiefer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474487815
• ISBN13: 9781474487818
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.3"