Lecture: Tom Holert – Aesthetic “Force”? On the Weaponisation of Art

Posté par Le Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art de Paris, le 13 mai 2026;
  • Date : Jeudi, 11.06.2026,18:00 h
  • Lieu : DFK - Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art Paris

Diego Rivera, En el arsenal, 1928, Secretaría de Educación Pública, Mexico City

To characterise individual artworks or – art as such – as a “weapon” is not uncommon in modernity. Yet it remains exceptional enough to unsettle established beliefs about the role and nature of art, just as the enduring scandal of the reciprocity between violence and aesthetics has always done. As is well known, the avant-garde (or rather its theory) invokes a proximity to the military already in its very name. But how exactly should we understand the notion of art being addressed “as a weapon”? Integrating . . . → En lire plus

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Lecture : Juliane Rebentisch – The Crisis of the Sublime

Posté par Le Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art de Paris, le 13 mai 2026;
  • Date : Jeudi, 21.05.2026,18:00 h
  • Lieu : DFK - Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art Paris

Schlatenkees, 2020/2025, photo: H. Raab, CC BY-SA 4.0

In view of recent environmental crises, the concept of the sublime seems to be relevant in two respects. These two respects correspond to the two sides of the sublime in Kant: the dynamically sublime on the one hand, and the mathematically sublime on the other. In view of the uncontrollable violence of extreme weather events, the association of the sublime with an overpowering might, as characterized by the dynamically sublime, seems obvious. Given that in the Anthropocene, environments tend to exceed human comprehension in their spatial and . . . → En lire plus

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