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“Paris … gibt’s das noch?” Max Aubs (Ent-)Rahmungen der historischen Avantgarde

  • Susanne Klengel
Published/Copyright: August 11, 2005
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From the journal Volume 40 Issue 1

Abstract

In his biography of Jusep Torres Campalans, a fictitious Catalan cubist painter and alleged friend of Picasso, the Spanish exile Max Aub plays artful games by questioning the difference between forgery and an original. His work caused a scandal in the international art scene in the early sixties and poses even today a challenge to interpretation. What are the textual strategies by which the apparently traditional “biography” displaces the acknowledged coordinates of the European Avant-garde? The text undermines the center of the modernist master-narrative by systematically upgrading its ex-centric margins (“Chiapas” instead of “Paris”!). By making the “paratexts” of the artist’s biography (the prologue, the acknowledgements, the chronology, the catalogue etc.) the real locus of enunciation – in analogy to the Avantgarde’s growing consciousness that the picture frame is as an aesthetic intervention – Aub’s composite text “frames” the history of the Avant-garde in order to open space for a more complex perception of aesthetic modernity.

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Online erschienen: 2005-08-11
Erschienen im Druck: 2005-07-20

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