TY - JOUR

T1 - Robert Walsers Sprachbildlichkeit

T2 - Im Trialog mit Thomas Hirschhorns Ruinen und Mark Wallingers Schattenspielen

AU - Steierwald, Ulrike

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.

PY - 2023/11/8

Y1 - 2023/11/8

N2 - In the linguistic imagery of his texts and also in his consistent biographical retreat, the author Robert Walser presents the riddles of an aesthetic relationship between self and other to the world. From the diversity of his extremely relational view of the world emerges a tension-rich charge of his texts, which is taken up by numerous visual artists. The tension consists in the simultaneity of abstraction and vividness, of cosmographic expansion and extreme reduction (e. g., in the micrograms), of similarity as well as difference. Thomas Hirschhorn and Mark Wallinger are quite similar in their love for Walser, but they are far apart in their artistic consequences. They shape the extremely relational and yet always precarious view of the world either in adhesions or volatility, physicality or shadow, publicity or isolation, ruins or paths, concretizations or abstractions. A politically effective aesthetic connects the two artists with Robert Walser in a poetic trialogue, for it is a matter of communication and discursive exposition, not of enlightenment or agitation.

AB - In the linguistic imagery of his texts and also in his consistent biographical retreat, the author Robert Walser presents the riddles of an aesthetic relationship between self and other to the world. From the diversity of his extremely relational view of the world emerges a tension-rich charge of his texts, which is taken up by numerous visual artists. The tension consists in the simultaneity of abstraction and vividness, of cosmographic expansion and extreme reduction (e. g., in the micrograms), of similarity as well as difference. Thomas Hirschhorn and Mark Wallinger are quite similar in their love for Walser, but they are far apart in their artistic consequences. They shape the extremely relational and yet always precarious view of the world either in adhesions or volatility, physicality or shadow, publicity or isolation, ruins or paths, concretizations or abstractions. A politically effective aesthetic connects the two artists with Robert Walser in a poetic trialogue, for it is a matter of communication and discursive exposition, not of enlightenment or agitation.

KW - Kunstwissenschaft

KW - Mark Wallinger

KW - Thomas Hirschhorn

KW - Literaturwissenschaft

KW - Sprachbildlichkeit

KW - Figurationen

KW - Robert Walser

KW - Autofiktion

KW - Kulturwissenschaften allg.

KW - ruination

KW - shadow

KW - Schattenspiel

KW - deconstruction

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85177170505&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2022

DO - 10.1515/arcadia-2023-2022

M3 - Zeitschriftenaufsätze

VL - 58

SP - 224

EP - 242

JO - Arcadia

JF - Arcadia

SN - 0003-7982

IS - 2

ER -