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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 99–118.
Published: 01 February 2010
... and makes his work more adaptable for scholarship today. © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 Beyond Realism: Siegfried Kracauer and
the Ornaments of the Ordinary
Christian Sieg
Given his intellectual infl uence on and personal friendship...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (3 (135)): 1–38.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Parker Everett Abstract Two architects, Adolf Loos in 1908 and Walter Gropius in 1924, and the architecture critic Alexander Schwab in 1930 (under the pseudonym Albert Sigrist) all advocated for the austere aesthetics of modernist architecture. For Loos, ornamentation was a sign of regression...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 41–62.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Daniel Purdy New German Critique, Inc. 2006 The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos
Daniel Purdy
Through much of the twentieth century, the Austrian architect and critic Adolf
Loos was best known for “Ornament...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 167–196.
Published: 01 February 2019
... of the human forms of the dancers in a frenzy of synchronized body parts (MO, 78). The programmatic shallowness of the ornament does not, for Kracauer, divest the observing subject of an obligation to reflect. On the contrary, Kracauer hopes that the spectator might discern in the mass ornament...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 197–228.
Published: 01 February 2019
..., contemporary accounts by male writers describe a paradoxical desexualization of the revue dancers ( “Accessing Unison,” 56–57 ). 18. Kracauer, “Mass Ornament,” 77, 79 . 17. Kracauer, “Mass Ornament,” 75–79 . 16. The rediscovery of Kracauer’s early critical writings by the 1960s...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 17–20.
Published: 01 August 2014
... phrase of The Mass Ornament) as “technology whose grace is seduc-
tive, grace that is genderless because it rests on joy of precision. A representa-
tion of American virtues, a flirt by the stopwatch” (45). The chorus line, serial
in formation, identical in image, androgynous, removes woman from her...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... to Balázs , Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory , xv – xlvi . Christians Heiko . 2000 . “Gesicht, Gestalt, Ornament: überlegungen zum epistemologischen Ort der Physiognomik zwischen Hermeneutik und Mediengeschichte.” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 74...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 7–20.
Published: 01 November 2020
... argument in favor of this social reading, see Füzi, “Face or Ornament.” 35. Elsaesser, “Double Occupancy,” 656 . See also Wedel, Filmgeschichte . 36. Elsaesser, “Double Occupancy.” 37. Füzi, “Face or Ornament,” 5 . 12. Balázs, Early Film Theory , 38 . 11...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
... New Objectivist motto, “Form without ornament!,” had been inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, and an aesthetic formalism sabotaged its rationalist tendencies. 14 In a detailed criticism of this exhibition written for the Frankfurter Zeitung , Kracauer unmasked its programmatic lack...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 83–103.
Published: 01 November 2017
...,
German readers from the 1960s on encountered the considerable power of
Kracauer’s prose miniatures from the 1920s. Only in the mid-1990s was a
subset of these writings translated for an English-language readership in Tom
Levin’s influential edition of The Mass Ornament.40 Conversely, in a missed...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 159–169.
Published: 01 August 2014
... Kracauer, “The Little Shopgirls Go to the Movies,” in The Mass Ornament: Weimar
Essays, ed. and trans. Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 292.
2. Theodor W. Adorno, “The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer,” in Notes to Literature,
ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 5–24.
Published: 01 November 2023
... unexpected resonances created by the present between the past and future: What is the status of the bitmap in the age of digital reproduction? Are viral dance videos a new form of self-expression or another iteration of the mass ornament? What would Kittler have written about social media, or perhaps even...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2010
... is the ‘go-for-broke’ game
of history.” Kracauer perceived modernity as an accelerating process of the
world going to pieces and photography as the medium of a self-destructing
modernity at the vanishing point of history.29
27. Siegfried Kracauer, The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, ed...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 11–24.
Published: 01 August 2012
... and ornament in Western
architecture beginning in the 1960s challenged the widespread West Ger-
man espousal of modernism as inherently democratic. Although a few Ger-
man architects, particularly O. M. Ungers, were eager postmodernists, many
were wary, as were clients. It was no accident that foreigners...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 189–202.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., germs, and tartar.18 And Kracauer’s “Two
Planes” (1926), which would become part of The Mass Ornament, was
inspired by Marseille spaces, as was “Die Frau vor dem Café” (1926).19 His
16. Hansen, Cinema and Experience, 254.
17. Klaus Michael, “Vor dem Café: Walter Benjamin and Siegfried...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 169–197.
Published: 01 February 2012
...,” in Das Ornament der Masse: Essays (Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp, 1977), 29; see also Kracauer, “Photography,” in The Mass Ornament, ed. and
trans. Thomas Y. Levin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), 54. Hereafter cited as
OM and MO, respectively.
172 Narrative Resemblance...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 111–139.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., the empty ornamentations, that integrate the
thematic material into traditional forms. At issue in Beethoven’s late works for
Adorno is not exhaustiveness, as Kretzschmar thinks, but abbreviation. This
abbreviation is not, Adorno is here arguing, a functionalist elimination of
ornament, a masterful...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 73–91.
Published: 01 November 2020
... writings on film, see Kracauer, “Calico World,” “The Little Shop Girls Go to the Movies,” “Film 1928,” and “Cult of Distraction,” in The Mass Ornament ; Kracauer, “Task of the Film Critic” ; and the larger subset of reviews included in The Promise of Cinema , edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 53–72.
Published: 01 February 2006
... and literal expressions—the latter standing not far from the broken
10. Adorno, “Notes on Kafka,” 212.
11. Adorno, “Heine the Wound,” 208.
58 Reflections on Suffering
mirror of the former—awaken from the slumber of figurative, ornamental lan-
guage and regain the consciousness of suffering...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (3 (129)): 155–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
... on the
threshold of atonality.” In this respect, the opera “begins to subject all purely
ornamental elements in music to criticism”; moments of atonality are not
momentary suspensions to be resolved into consonance but essential compo-
nents of the musical form.10 In the following chapter, “Color,” Adorno...
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