A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text
Gerhard Richter's books Text – a collection of painter's verbal statements about his artistic method – and Atlas – 783 sheets with images, mainly photographs and visual notations – are two archives that complement the understanding of his diverse artistic practice. The paper presents a tex...
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| description | Gerhard Richter's books Text – a collection of painter's verbal statements about his artistic method – and Atlas – 783 sheets with images, mainly photographs and visual notations – are two archives that complement the understanding of his diverse artistic practice. The paper presents a textual model that experimentally simulates a possible ordering principle for archives. Richter's statements in the book Text are cut up and used as short quotations. Those that relate to multiple aspects of the painter's oeuvre are identified as hubs in the semantic network. The hubs are organized paratactically, as an array of different themes. The paper presents a methodological hypothesis and an experimental model that aim to connect the research of real networks with the paradigms of humanistic interpretation. We have to bear in mind that the network is a result of the researcher's interpretative approach, which is added to the initial archive included in the book Text. The breaking up of Richter's poetics into atoms of quotations is an experimental proposal of a new textuality in art history and humanities, which has its own history. In comparison to digital archives with complex interfaces that often tend to obscure the content, the elements in our experiment appear as specific configurations of the semantic network and are presented in a limited number of linear texts. The method of listing of quotations gathers the fragments into a potential “whole”, i.e. a narrativized gateway to an archive according to the researcher's interpretation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1408de61f7e44539968ff10755d33b902022-12-21T22:37:34ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaMetacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory2457-88272457-88272017-07-0131637410.24193/mjcst.2017.3.04A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's TextNarvika Bovcon0Aleš Vaupotič1University of LjubljanaUniversity of Nova GoricaGerhard Richter's books Text – a collection of painter's verbal statements about his artistic method – and Atlas – 783 sheets with images, mainly photographs and visual notations – are two archives that complement the understanding of his diverse artistic practice. The paper presents a textual model that experimentally simulates a possible ordering principle for archives. Richter's statements in the book Text are cut up and used as short quotations. Those that relate to multiple aspects of the painter's oeuvre are identified as hubs in the semantic network. The hubs are organized paratactically, as an array of different themes. The paper presents a methodological hypothesis and an experimental model that aim to connect the research of real networks with the paradigms of humanistic interpretation. We have to bear in mind that the network is a result of the researcher's interpretative approach, which is added to the initial archive included in the book Text. The breaking up of Richter's poetics into atoms of quotations is an experimental proposal of a new textuality in art history and humanities, which has its own history. In comparison to digital archives with complex interfaces that often tend to obscure the content, the elements in our experiment appear as specific configurations of the semantic network and are presented in a limited number of linear texts. The method of listing of quotations gathers the fragments into a potential “whole”, i.e. a narrativized gateway to an archive according to the researcher's interpretation.http://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/67/a-network-of-themes-a-qualitative-approach-to-gerhard-richters-textartistic archivenarrativizationnetworksauthor's poeticsGerhard Richter |
| spellingShingle | Narvika Bovcon Aleš Vaupotič A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory artistic archive narrativization networks author's poetics Gerhard Richter |
| title | A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text |
| title_full | A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text |
| title_fullStr | A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text |
| title_short | A Network of Themes: A Qualitative Approach to Gerhard Richter's Text |
| title_sort | network of themes a qualitative approach to gerhard richter s text |
| topic | artistic archive narrativization networks author's poetics Gerhard Richter |
| url | http://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/67/a-network-of-themes-a-qualitative-approach-to-gerhard-richters-text |
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