Catastrophic Histories, Planetary Futures: Aesthetics for the Anthropocene in Alexander Kluge, Sebastião Salgado, and Anselm Kiefer

Radisoglou, Alexis

Abstract

Engaging with representations of catastrophic histories and ‘planetary futures’ in the photography of Sebastião Salgado, in sculpture and painting by Anselm Kiefer, and the fictional work of Alexander Kluge, the article examines the formal heterogeneity and different political valences inherent in the notion of an emerging ‘aesthetics for the Anthropocene’.

Citation

Radisoglou, A. (2018). Catastrophic Histories, Planetary Futures: Aesthetics for the Anthropocene in Alexander Kluge, Sebastião Salgado, and Anselm Kiefer. In G. Dürbeck, & J. Nesselhauf (Eds.), Representations of the Anthropocene in Literature and the Media (199-217). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b15048

• Publication Date: 2018
• Deposit Date: Aug 21, 2019
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 199-217
• Book Title: Representations of the Anthropocene in Literature and the Media.
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b15048