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Published: 01 August 2018
Figure 4. Dame mit Pelz und Schleier ( Lady with Mink and Veil ), by Otto Dix, 1920. Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on board, 73.0 × 54.6 cm (28 ¾ ×21 ½ in). Collection of Michael and Judy Steinhardt, New York. © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn More
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Figure 4. Dame mit Pelz und Schleier ( Lady with Mink and Veil ), by Otto Dix, 1920. Oil and tempera on canvas mounted on board, 73.0 × 54.6 cm (28 ¾ ×21 ½ in). Collection of Michael and Judy Steinhardt, New York. © 2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn ...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 99–128.
Published: 01 February 2015
... of an aesthetics of “failure” that observes das Bilderverbot , veils a messianic vision of justice. Benjamin's gnostic picture of modernity as a bureaucratic prison house reflects Josef K.'s victimized view of his situation in The Trial . Hans Blumenberg's therapeutic account of myth suggests a view of Kafka's...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 133–153.
Published: 01 August 2018
... , 19 . Leibniz himself refers to caterpillars’ metamorphoses into butterflies ( Mo , §74). 21. A generative veiled eye akin to the one described here appears also in Celan, “Edgar Jené,” 13–14 . What Celan finds in Leibniz seems consistent with his early interest in surrealist poetry and art...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 147–185.
Published: 01 February 2010
... Ali as the emblem of the sequestered, veiled, victimized, sexually stunted Muslim woman.13 It dramatizes a militant Islamic “virginity” whose proliferating and inconsistent meanings challenge the stark juxtaposition of Muslim/orthodox and Christian/secular genders in contempo- rary discourses...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 103–117.
Published: 01 February 2009
... the common basis of life certain suppositions originate and people look upon one another through them as through a veil. This veil does not, to be sure, simply conceal the peculiarity of the individual, but it gives to this 2. In Simmel’s text the being-for-itself that characterizes...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 107–138.
Published: 01 August 2020
... measured by the clock—eventually appear as a “natural law” ( C , 168). This idea was developed further by Georg Lukács, who famously argued in History and Class Consciousness that the relations that come about under capitalism permeate the subject’s consciousness and result in a veil that covers...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (1 (145)): 11–39.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of the digital age. The first generation of phenomenologists did not live to confront the digital revolution. Husserl’s consequential claim that Galileo had confused “being” with “method,” and inserted a repeatable pattern of measurement—a “symbolic veil of ideas”—into the “universe of self-understood things...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 201–227.
Published: 01 August 2017
... . 2005 . “Beneath the Seventh Veil: Richard Strauss's ‘Salome’ and Kaiser Wilhelm II.” Musical Times 146 , no. 2 : 5 – 27 . Wehler Hans-Ulrich . 1973 . Das deutsche Kaiserreich, 1871–1918 . Göttingen : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht . Youmans Charles . 2005 . Richard Strauss's...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (1 (136)): 167–196.
Published: 01 February 2019
... that will abolish the deficiencies of the present. His ornament is a veiled passage not to an indeterminate Beyond but to a determinate Beyond in itself. Both Jünger in the 1930s and Kracauer in the 1920s broadly agree that intellectual proximity to the ornamental figuration of the end in itself, appearing...
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New German Critique (2021) 48 (2 (143)): 125–146.
Published: 01 August 2021
... beyond human agency. For Benjamin, it follows that a true emancipation in aesthetic experience would involve the complete dissolution of artwork’s aura or a “stripping-away of its veil [ Entschälung ].” With the rise of new techniques of reproducibility, especially in photography and film, the conditions...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 199–205.
Published: 01 February 2013
... correct anti-Semitism.” Frank Schirrmacher, writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, underscored Grass’s positioning himself as the potential “survivor” of a future genocide. Calling the poem a particularly sad form of ressenti- ment, he interpreted it as a veiled response to Angela Merkel’s...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 1–7.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of the German Task Force of Provenance Research, American museum curators from New York and Los Angeles, lawyers, and journalists. Beyond the specific case of the Gurlitts’ long-hidden treasures, the con- ference was designed to explore the consciously veiled continuities of art deal- erships...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 1–8.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and therefore must draw the veil of secrecy. “Oh conspiracy,” says Shakespeare’s New German Critique 103, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2008 DOI 10.1215/0094033X-2007-015 © 2008 by New German Critique, Inc. 1 2 Introduction Brutus. “Sham’st thou...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of the Wall. And until the 1970s the iron cur- tain and the Wall effectively kept East and West apart, while memories of the past—conscious, repressed, or unconscious—pointed to certain commonali- ties. At the same time, the Cold War division of the country was like an invis- ible veil that shaped...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 113–133.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Savigny and Corréard. Not only does its black veil drain the narrative from the image, but its individual figures are melded “into a single entity,” a “blackish mass” ( AoR , 2:22). This is arguably where the operations of formless within the enclosed work of art leave their mark. Akin to Bataille’s...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 59–89.
Published: 01 February 2016
... appearance for the first time, breaking with the centuries of domina- tion by feudal and bourgeois art.”73 The section of Balázs’s Visible Man titled “Aura” resonates with Benjamin’s later use of the term in his artwork essay, as does Balázs’s insistence that objects wear a veil—the “veil of our...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (2 (152)): 27–50.
Published: 01 August 2024
... finally professes the revolutionary act of tearing away the veil (“Wir reißen uns die Hüllen ab” [We rip off our covers]), this self-exposure is inspired by the burning desire produced by a return to the origins of human transgression. Lasker-Schüler expresses a call for exposed vulnerability: a desire...
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (1 (97)): 5–14.
Published: 01 February 2006
... empiri­ cist idea of measuring culture—a critique that appeared, in thinly veiled form, in the 1945 lecture—directs itself not against an empirical American style 12 Adorno’s American Experience of science but against an uncritical acceptance of the developing culture industry. Here, too...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 97–120.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of an independent ethics, beyond confl icts and above all traces of violence. This was why he insisted that “the impact of Isaiah’s proph- ecy cannot be misunderstood: behind every statement about disaster stands a veiled choice” (Torat, 124). This, he continued, is the choice between “salva- tion...