W.G. Sebald's books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expos???, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities. All his narratives are punctuated with images--murky photographs, architectural plans, engravings, paintings, newspaper clippings--inserted into the prose without captions and often without obvious connection to the words that surround them. This important volume ...
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W.G. Sebald's books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expos???, in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities. All his narratives are punctuated with images--murky photographs, architectural plans, engravings, paintings, newspaper clippings--inserted into the prose without captions and often without obvious connection to the words that surround them. This important volume includes a rare 1993 interview called "'But the written word is not a true document': A Conversation with W.G. Sebald about Photography and Literature," in which Sebald talks exclusively about his use of photographs. It contains some of Sebald's most illuminating and poetic remarks about the topic yet. In it, he discusses Barthes, the photograph's "appeal," the childhood image of Kafka, family photographs, and even images he never used in his writings. In addition, Searching for Sebald positions Sebald within an art-historical tradition that begins with the Surrealists, continues through Joseph Beuys and blossoms in the recent work of Christian Boltanski and Gerhard Richter, and tracks his continuing inspiration to artists such as Tacita Dean and Helen Mirra. An international roster of artists and scholars unpacks the intricacies of his unique method. Seventeen theoretical essays approach Sebald through the multiple filters of art history (Krauss), film studies (Kluge), cultural theory (Benjamin), psychoanalysis (Freud), and especially photographic history and theory (Barthes, Kracauer), and 17 modern and contemporary art projects are read through a Sebaldian filter. If Sebald's artistic output acts as a touchstone for new critical theory being written on "post-medium" photographic practices, Seaching for Sebald suggests a model for new investigations in the burgeoning field of visual studies.
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Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Soft cover, folded card covers., bottom fore-corner has a bump which left a soft crease to most pages down at the corner. else, clean, no writing or markings. tight sewn binding.; english text., 631pp., illustrated throughout in color, b/w. contains 34 essays, articles, texts. by various contributors. there were two different limited editions of this title. weighs just under 5 lbs.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized. PAPERBACK.
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Good. Diagonal crease near bottom of front cover. Upper tips slightly bumped. Bottom edge of back cover and last few pages bumped, lower right corner creased, tear in left edge of spine heel. Contents clean and tight.
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Very Good. Institute of Cultural Inquiry, 2007. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Signed with inscription by co-authoor Christel Dillbohner. Quality oversize softcover in its own flaps. Printed on thick matte paper. With 400 photos. Spine has a readaing crease, but else looking fresh and nearly new. Heavy, bulky book..
