Toward Fewer Images: The Work of Alexander Kluge by Philipp Ekardt (Hardcover First Edition)
Published by MIT Press, 2018
Hardcover
First printing
410 pages
9x7 inches
Book and dust jacket in New unread condition. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.
“Toward Fewer Images is therefore not only an entry point into Kluge's multiverse, but also an interpretative key to unlock its depth, not always visible to the naked eye.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
The first English-language monograph devoted to the full oeuvre of Alexander Kluge, the prolific German filmmaker, television producer, digital entrepreneur, author, thinker, and public intellectual. Since 1960, Kluge has made fourteen feature films and twenty short films and has written more than thirty books—including three with Marxist philosopher Oskar Negt. His television production company has released more than 3,000 features, in which Kluge converses with real or fictional experts or creates thematic montages. He also maintains a website on which he reassembles segments from his film and television work. To call Kluge “prolific” would be an understatement. This is the first English-language monograph devoted to the full scope of Kluge's work, from his appearance on the cultural scene in the 1960s to his contributions to New German Cinema in the 1970s and early 1980s to his recent collaborations with such artists as Gerhard Richter.
