Painting as reproduced in: Henry Geldzahler and Robert Rosenblum, Andy Warhol: Portraits, Munich 1993, p. 91.

Dieter Mersch

Movements of Avant-garde Art:

›Aisthesis‹, ›Ekstasis‹, and ›Askesis‹.

›Aisthesis‹, ›Ekstasis‹, and ›Askesis‹.

›Aisthesis‹, ›Ekstasis‹, and ›Askesis‹.

»withdrawal of art from art« (Joseph Beuys)

»It must turn against that which constitutes its own concept,« says Theodor W. Adorno in his Ästhetische Theorie, »and in so doing it will become uncertain right down to the very fibers of its being. It is not, however, to be dismissed as an abstract negation. By attacking that which the entire tradition considered to be guaranteed, the bedrock on which it stood, it transforms itself qualitatively; it turns into another.«