@article{686858,
      recid = {686858},
      author = {Pickford, Henry W.},
      title = {The sense of semblance philosophical analyses of Holocaust  art / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Fordham University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xii, 280 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"Holocaust artworks intuitively must fulfill at least two  criteria: artistic (lest they be merely historical  documents) and historical (lest they distort the Holocaust  or become merely artworks). The Sense of Semblance locates  this problematic within philosophical aesthetics, as a  version of the conflict between aesthetic autonomy and  heteronomy, and argues that Adorno's dialectic of aesthetic  semblance describes the normative demand that artworks  maintain a dynamic tension between the two. The Sense of  Semblance aims to move beyond familiar debates surrounding  postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness of  contemporary theories of meaning and understanding,  including those from the analytic tradition. Pickford shows  how the causal theory of names, the philosophy of tacit  knowledge, the analytic philosophy of quotation, Sartre's  theory of the imaginary, the epistemology of testimony, and  Walter Benjamin's dialectical image can help explicate how  individual artworks fulfill artistic and historical  desiderata. In close readings of Celan's poetry, Holocaust  memorials in Berlin, the quotational artist Heimrad Backer,  Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and Art Spiegelman's graphic  novel Maus, Pickford offers interpretations that, in their  precision, specificity, and clarity, inaugurate a dialogue  between contemporary analytic philosophy and contemporary  art. The Sense of Semblance is the first book to  incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in  interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and  film about the Holocaust"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/686858},
}