Truth of a Painting, Truth of Matter: Robert Rauschenberg, Henryk Streng, and the History of Art
Truth of a Painting, Truth of Matter: Robert Rauschenberg, Henryk Streng, and the History of Art

Author(s): Piotr Słodkowski
Subject(s): Philosophy, Psychology, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: art history; modernism; Holocaust; intertextualism; new materialism
Summary/Abstract: Starting from the issue of truth in painting, the text presents a methodological discussion on inter-image relations. The starting point for this thinking is a radical juxtaposition of two artistic practices: Rauschenberg’s erasures on a drawing by de Kooning and Henryk Streng scratching out the signature on his own paintings. Both these interferences facilitate an analysis of the transition from approaching images intertextually to a research viewpoint that – quite the opposite – enhances the material aspect of visual representations.

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