Ep. 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete" and "Sulamith" (1981)

The art of postwar German artist Anselm Kiefer and the poetry of
Holocaust survivor Paul Celan have a lot in common. They’re both
layered, dense, hard to read, and most of the time you’re not quite
sure if you get it. And while this might seem like an onerous way
to understand history, sometimes the best starting point is through
the layered, dense, and idiosyncratic ways that an individual
processes trauma. So grab a spelunking hardhat and together we'll
mine these layers of metaphor and materials, texture and text,
golden straw and blackened ash, that comprise the unimaginable.
This episode was produced with support from the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. Learn more at www.sfmoma.com. See the images:
https://bit.ly/31gUSwW Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Bus
at Dawn,” “Silky,” Drone Pine,” “Tiny Bottles,” “Inamorata,”
“Tapoco,” “The Summit,” “Cirrus,” “Derailed,” “Insatiable Toad,”
“Dolly and Pad,” “A Pleasant Strike” John Williams, performed by
Itzhak Perlman & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, “Theme from
Schindler’s List” Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette