Atlas Gerharda Richtera: archiwum anomiczne
Gerhard Richter’s Atlas: The Anomic Archive

Summary/Abstract: During the twentieth century, an age of fading belief in empiricism and aspirations towards a comprehensible completeness of positivistic systems of knowledge, the term „atlas” assumed a metaphorical significance. The most prominent example of this anti-positivistic tendency is the Mnemosyne Atlas – a monumental project whose purpose is gathering identifiable forms of collective memory. The several decades later Atlas by Gerhard Richter appears to treat photography and its assorted practices as one of the instruments with whose assistance collective anomy, amnesia and denial are socially encoded.

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