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.
Kluge\'s production, Ekardt argues, allows us to imagine a model of authorship and artistic production that does not rely on an accumulation of individual works over time but rather on a permanent activity of (temporalized) reworking and redifferentiation..
Ekardt discusses Kluge\'s image theory and practice as developed across different media, and considers how, in relation to this theory, Kluge returns to, varies, expands, and modifies the practice of montage, including its recent manifestations in digital media--noting Kluge\'s counterintuitive claim that creating montages results in Fewer images.
In Toward Fewer Images, Philipp Ekardt offers both close analyses of Kluge\'s individual works and sustained investigations of his overarching (and perpetual) production.
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.
To call Kluge "prolific" would be an understatement.
He also maintains a website on which he reassembles segments from his film and television work.
His television production company has released more than 3, 000 features, in which Kluge converses with real or fictional experts or creates thematic montages.
Since 1960, he has made fourteen feature films and twenty short films and has written more than thirty books--including three with Marxist philosopher Oskar Negt.
Alexander Kluge (born 1932) is a German filmmaker, author, television producer, theorist, and digital entrepreneur.
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
