Resumen de Gerhard Richter: WAR CUT
A study of WAR CUT, a 2004 artist's book by Gerhard Richter. Published scarcely a year after the beginning of “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” this book features more than 300 pages of powerful collage that combine the artist's nonrepresentational images with texts from newspaper articles issued in the first days of the Iraqi War. It is not to be understood as a comment on the war. A profound penetration of art and life is possible only because of their separation: Art does not take a stance in moral or political conflicts but can change the world because of its “autonomy.” Only in this paradoxical way could WAR CUT accomplish something like resistance in life—against the ideologizing of thought, against the exploitation of art, against inhuman hardening, against violence and terror.
