December: 39 Stories, 39 Pictures Kluge Alexander
December: 39 Stories, 39 Pictures Kluge Alexander In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist…
Specifikacia December: 39 Stories, 39 Pictures Kluge Alexander
December: 39 Stories, 39 Pictures Kluge Alexander
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year.In stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology, Kluge toys as readily with time and space as he does with his characters. In another, we relive Greek financial crises. In the narrative entry for December 1931, Adolf Hitler avoids a car crash by inches.
In Kluge's work, power seems only to erode and decay, never grow, and circumstances always seem to elude human control. There are stories where time accelerates, and others in which it seems to slow to the pace of falling snow. When a German commander outside Moscow in December