Art After The End Of Art

Total transparency is only possible through total control—the latter only exists in a dictatorship.

Aber können wir es uns als Gesellschaft leisten, auf die Utopie zu verzichten?

ENTKUNSTUNG

Material Matters: On Transparency in Art and Politics

We hope you can see this book as we do: as an extension of memory; interpretations of our time that aspire to reinvent the world anew, “as a whole to be imagined”.

Art and aesthetics are a kind of problematic equation, perhaps a forgotten or even interrupted relationship that has to be reconsidered over and over again.

01 ENTKUNSTUNG

If life were completely rational

ENTKUNSTUNG III Editors' Note

ENTKUNSTUNG I Preface

One of the tasks of art criticism is 
to make evident the discursive qualities of artistic creation.

It is necessary to actively assume a position to eradicate the superficiality and loss of ideals.