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Thyssen II,
Duisburg-Ruhrort, June 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

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The year is 1930\u2014a present wracked by profound crises worldwide. The social order is coming unstuck, but so are traditional categories of knowledge. Europe\u2019s imperialist expansion is at its zenith even as its very legitimacy is being radically called into question. Political and social conflicts quickly assume global dimensions. The First World War, revolutions, the industrialisation of production, the scientization of everyday life, and new images and encounters with alterity distributed by mass culture have shaken the Eurocentric worldview to its core\u2014and all the old certainties that came with it. Both economic and social crises corresponded with an epistemological nervosity that has reached fever pitch. The individual\u2019s place in time and even the concept of history itself have become problematic. In search of new beginnings, a new critical awareness manifests itself in a recourse to all things archaic, to \u201cdeep time,\u201d and to notions of humanity\u2019s \u201cchildhood.\u201d Ethnologists and prehistorians play a crucial role in the anthropological speculation sparked by origins of all kinds. Disseminated by the media and by the increasingly important \ufb01eld of art journalism, \u201cworld art\u201dand the spectacle of cave painting become cultural formulae for a revised view of history and modernism. Taking Carl Einstein\u2019s \u201cHandbuch der Kunst\u201d as its operative center, Section A sheds light on pictorial and textual articulations of the \u201carchaic illusion\u201d of the period from the 1920s to the 1940s.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

— from a Catalog on the works of Carl Einstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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