Dat Onduerstellbaart an d’Avantgarde

Barnett Newman’s large, colour-intensive and abstract paintings represent the non-representable. Abstract art leaves a lot of room to our imagination. How can you understand abstract art? In this lecture, Nora Schleich introduces the visitors to Jean-François Lyotard’s philosophical studies and explains why the subconscious plays an important role in the understanding of abstract art.

By Nora Schleich