Andreas Huyssen
Biographic Data
| ID | 159078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Huyssen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Huyssen |
| SIGNATURE | HUYSSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 497 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
In Memory of Anson Rabinbach (1945–2025)
The idea for this special issue, "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads," emerged during my weekly walks in New York's Riverside Park with Anson Rabinbach, known to his friends as Andy.As former editors of NGC and teachers of German history and culture, we were deeply shocked by Hamas's massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, realizing that something fundamental had occurred in the longtime hostile and violent relationship between Israelis a…
The art of memory activism in the global South
The article treats two forms of memory activism in the visual arts of the global South: on one hand, gallery and museum art by artists such as Kuitca from Argentina, Salcedo from Colombia, Kentridge from South Africa, Guzmán from Chile, Malani and Sundaram from India, and on the other hand, a series of short-term political-aesthetic interventions in public space such as El Siluetazo of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, María José Contreras performa…
What is Radical
What does it mean to think and act radically, and how does this relate to forms of radicalism connected to earlier moments, for example, in the 20th century? What can be the role of radical art and scholarship under the conditions of late capitalism? More generally, how can art and artists serve the ongoing struggle for social justice and the agendas of emancipatory social change? Finally, what kinds of art criticism and art historical scholarshi…
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities
Behemoth Levanta-Se Novamente: ReflexÕES Sobre O Fascismo NO SÉCulo XXI / Behemoth rises again: reflections on 21st-Century Fascism
O presente texto é adaptado de Prophets of Deceit Redivivus - palestra proferida em 8 de junho de 2019 no Museu de História Alemã em Berlim, em conferência sobre Mosse's Europe: New Perspectives in the History of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality. A conferência discutiu proximidades e diferenças entre a atual situação política nos Estados Unidos e o fascismo entreguerras, nacional socialista. O texto foi originalmente publicado em julho de 2…
Memories of Europe in the Art From Elsewhere
The contemporary arts contain and nurture the social lives of European memory, both in Europe and abroad. But European memory cannot be fortressed. It must include memories of Europe as they circulate elsewhere in the world. The lecture will focus on three contemporary artists (Doris Salcedo, William Kentridge, and Vivan Sundaram) whose work engages with memories of political violence in aesthetic forms imaginatively appropriated and transformed …
Memórias da Europa na arte de outros lugares
As artes contemporâneas contêm e nutrem as vidas sociais da memória Europeia, tanto dentro quanto fora da Europa. Mas a memória Europeia não pode ser fortalecida. Deve incluir memórias da Europa, uma vez que estas circulam em outras partes do mundo. A palestra se concentrará em três artistas contemporâneos (Doris Salcedo, William Kentridge e Vivan Sundaram), cujo trabalho envolve memórias de violência política em formas estéticas imaginativamente…
Miniature
Miniature Andreas Huyssen (bio) Miniaturization has always had a special allure, as it promises to make the world more amenable to control and to play. Miniaturization today, however, has reached a qualitatively new stage: ever smaller technological devices are running our lives, while their memory grows ever larger, and their effects have become uncontrollable. Digital technologies produce not only changes in scale, but also transformations in t…
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Nazi-Looted Art and Its Legacies: Introduction
In early 2012 German officials investigating violations of tax law discovered a trove of mainly nineteenth-and early twentieth-century European paintings and drawings in the Munich apartment and Salzburg house of Cornelius Gurlitt, the reclusive son of the prominent art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt.The elder Gurlitt had worked for the Nazis but also counted a number of artists despised by them among his friends.Since then, the story of the Gurlitt c…
Introduction: Transatlantic Theory Transfer: Missed Encounters
Introduction| November 01 2017 Introduction: Transatlantic Theory Transfer: Missed Encounters? Andreas Huyssen; Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Anson Rabinbach Anson Rabinbach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-4162190 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search S…
A Review of “Juliane Rebentisch. Theorien der Gegenwartskunst zur Einführung. Hamburg”: Junius, 2013. 256 pp. ISBN 978-3885066972
Juliane Rebentisch. Theorien der Gegenwartskunst zur Einfuhrung. Hamburg: Junius, 2013. 256 pp. ISBN 978-3885066972Peter Osborne. Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art. London: Ver
Memory things and their temporality
Dispersal and redemption: The future dynamics of memory studies – A roundtable
Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia
Miriam Hansen and the Legacies of Critical Theory
July 01 2011 Miriam Hansen and the Legacies of Critical Theory Andreas Huyssen Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andreas Huyssen Online ISSN: 1536-013X Print ISSN: 0162-2870 © 2011 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2011 October (2011) (137): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1162/OCTO_a_00061 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook…
Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world
Verdensbyer – Urbane Forestillingsverdener
The article is an edited version of the article “Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities” in Andreas Huyssen, ed. Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. The article was translated into Danish by Morten Visby
German Painting in the Cold War
This essay was first published as “Figures of Memory in the Course of Time” in the exhibition catalog edited by Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann, Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (New York: Abrams in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], 2009), 224–39. It is reprinted here with the permission of LACMA. The artworks mentioned in the essay are easily accessible in the catalog
William Kentridge: Five themes
With a searing body of work ranging from drawings and films to prints, tapestries, and sculptures, William Kentridge (b. 1955) has offered a fresh and distinctive glimpse of the daily lives of South Africans - both during the apartheid regime and after its collapse.This extraordinary catalog, produced in close collaboration with the artist, investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career such as: Soh…
Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age
Geographies of modernism in a globalizing world
The geography of classical modernism is determined primarily by metropolitan cities and the cultural experiments and upheavals they generated: Baudelaire’s Paris, Dostoevsky or Mandelstam’s St Petersburg, Schönberg, Freud, and Wittgenstein’s Vienna, Kafka’s Prague, Joyce’s Dublin, the futurists’ Rome, Woolf’s London, Dada in Zurich, Munich and der blaue Reiter, the Berlin of Brecht, Döblin and the Bauhaus, Tretyakov’s Moscow, the Paris of Cubism …
Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World
Research Article| February 01 2007 Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World Andreas Huyssen Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 189–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andreas Huyssen; Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World. New German Critique …
Nostalgia for Ruins
April 01 2006 Nostalgia for Ruins Andreas Huyssen Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andreas Huyssen Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (23): 6–21. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.23.6 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views …
Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia
Research Article| January 01 2000 Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia Andreas Huyssen Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Andreas Huyssen; Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia. Public Culture 1 January 2000; 12 (1): 21-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
"One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " -Village Voice Literary Supplement"... his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." -American Literary History"... challenging and astute." -World Literature Today"Huyssen’s level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critica…
The Voids of Berlin
Mapping the Postmodern
Nostalgia for Ruins
April 01 2006 Nostalgia for Ruins Andreas Huyssen Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andreas Huyssen Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2006 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2006 Grey Room (2006) (23): 6–21. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey.2006.1.23.6 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views …
Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia
Dispersal and redemption: The future dynamics of memory studies – A roundtable
Diaspora and Nation: Migration into Other Pasts
The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Andreas Huyssen, The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, New German Critique, No. 24/25, Special Double Issue on New German Cinema (Autumn, 1981 - Winter, 1982), pp. 221-237
Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno
Since the 1980s, the question is no longer whether, but rather how to represent the Holocaust in literature, film, and the visual arts. The earlier conviction about the essential unrepresentability of the Holocaust, typically grounded in Adorno's famous statement about the barbarism of poetry after Auschwitz and still powerful in some circles today, has lost much of its persuasiveness for later generations who only know of the Holocaust through r…
Monumental Seduction
Further Thoughts on Helke Sander's Project
Annette Michelson: We are here to discuss a work by the important German feminist filmmaker Helke Sander. Although this film won the Nestor Almendros Prize at the Human Rights Film Festival of 1993 in New York and was the subject, last fall, of a day-long symposium at the Graduate Center of the City University, it has not yet received a fully articulated and nuanced response in the United States. It seems to us that the film raises important ques…
The Search for Tradition: Avant-Garde and Postmodernism in the 1970s
Imagine Walter Benjamin in Berlin, the city of his childhood, walking through the international avant-garde exhibit Tendenzen der zwanziger Jahre, on display in 1977 in the new Nationalgalerie built by Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe in the 1960s. Imagine Walter Benjamin as a flaneur in the city of boulevards and arcades he so admirably described, happening upon the Centre Georges Pompidou and its multi-media show Paris-Berlin 1900-1933, whic…
A Questionnaire on Monuments
A Questionnaire on Monuments" features 49 responses to questions formulated by Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, David Joselit, and Carrie Lambert-Beatty: "From Charlottesville to Cape Town, there have been struggles over monuments and other markers involving histories of racial conflict. How do these charged situations shed light on the ethics of images in civil society today? Speaking generally or with specific examples in mind, please consider any o…
Memory things and their temporality
Fortifying the Heart: Totally Ernst Junger's Armored Texts
After the Wall: The Failure of German Intellectuals
The patterns of intellectual and political discourse in the new unified Germany are undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift. Innumerable feuilleton and magazine essays, books and conference proceedings, lecture series and round table discussions of the past year and a half reveal a far-reaching crisis in the self-understanding and public role of German intellectuals. A certain high-pitched tone betrays raw nerves. Tempers are fraying; irritation …
Introduction to Adorno
In printing Adorno's Industry Reconsidered, an essay which sums up ideas first developed in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialektik der Aufkldrung,l New German Critique's intention is not only to elaborate again theories of manipulation, reification and administration of culture and their obvious negative implications for human praxis. Nor is our interest merely archival or historical; we are not publishing this essay simply because Adorno was one of t…
Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World
Research Article| February 01 2007 Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World Andreas Huyssen Andreas Huyssen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 189–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2006-023 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Andreas Huyssen; Geographies of Modernism in a Globalizing World. New German Critique …
An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time
German Painting in the Cold War
This essay was first published as “Figures of Memory in the Course of Time” in the exhibition catalog edited by Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann, Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (New York: Abrams in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], 2009), 224–39. It is reprinted here with the permission of LACMA. The artworks mentioned in the essay are easily accessible in the catalog
Air War Legacies: From Dresden to Baghdad
In the months leading up to the Anglo-American war against Saddam Hussein's regime, the legacies of the 60-year-old air war against German cities infused the German peace movement and its growing opposition to Washington's unilateralism. While all over Europe the massive opposition to the war was politically justified, the German case displays a curious mix of memory and forgetting that sets it apart. The use of treacherous and facile historical …
Kiefer in Berlin
German newspapers never tire of pointing out that Anselm Kiefer's reputation as the most successful German artist since Beuys was made in the United States, and there, it is intimated, by a mysteriously homogeneous group of Jewish-American collectors. The subtext is that those misguided souls bought his art at a time when the German critical establishment knew that Kiefer, with his Teutonic image worlds, his Wagnerian monumentalism, and his nebul…
From counter-culture to neo-conservatism and beyond: Stages of the Postmodern
Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner
Andreas Huyssen, Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner, New German Critique, No. 29, The Origins of Mass Culture: The Case of Imperial Germany (1871-1918) (Spring - Summer, 1983), pp. 8-38
Literatur und Politik. Ein Essay
Research in Popular Literature and Praxis-Related Literary Scholarship: A Report
Joachim Bark, Andreas Huyssen, Johanna Moore, Michael Willkommen, Research in Popular Literature and Praxis-Related Literary Scholarship: A Report, New German Critique, No. 1 (Winter, 1973), pp. 133-141
The Convergence Theory: The Debate in the Federal Republic of Germany
Jutta Kneissel, Andreas Huyssen, Johanna Moore, The Convergence Theory: The Debate in the Federal Republic of Germany, New German Critique, No. 2, Special Issue on the German Democratic Republic (Spring, 1974), pp. 16-27
Introduction to Adorno
In printing Adorno's Industry Reconsidered, an essay which sums up ideas first developed in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialektik der Aufkldrung,l New German Critique's intention is not only to elaborate again theories of manipulation, reification and administration of culture and their obvious negative implications for human praxis. Nor is our interest merely archival or historical; we are not publishing this essay simply because Adorno was one of t…
The Cultural Politics of Pop: Reception and Critique of US Pop Art in the Federal Republic of Germany
In the mid 1960s, when the student movement broadened its criticism of the university system to include attacks on West German society, politics and institutions in general, a wave of pop enthusiasm swept the Federal Republic. The notion of pop that attracted people almost magically not only referred to the new art by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Wesselmann and others; it also stood for beat and rock music, poster art, the flower child cult and the drug…
Producing Revolution: Heiner Muller's Mauser as Learning Play
Literaturwissenschaft und Sozialwissenschaften 2: Germanistik und deutsche Nation 1806-1848
Literatur und GeschichtsbewuSStsein. Entwicklungstendenzen der DDR-Literatur in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren
The Politics of Identification: "Holocaust" and West German Drama
Since it was produced for a US audience, the American tv series had a totally unanticipated and unintended impact in West Germany. Commentary following the showing there hailed it as the media event of the decade. In the heated debates preceding the telecast, however, was condemned by critics of all political camps as a cheap popularization of complex historical processes which could not possible help the Germans come to terms with their recent p…
The Significance of the Avant-Garde for Contemporary Aesthetics: A Reply to Jurgen Habermas
Andreas Huyssen, Jack Zipes, The Significance of the Avant-Garde for Contemporary Aesthetics: A Reply to Jürgen Habermas, New German Critique, No. 22, Special Issue on Modernism (Winter, 1981), pp. 19-22
The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Andreas Huyssen, The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, New German Critique, No. 24/25, Special Double Issue on New German Cinema (Autumn, 1981 - Winter, 1982), pp. 221-237
The Search for Tradition: Avant-Garde and Postmodernism in the 1970s
Imagine Walter Benjamin in Berlin, the city of his childhood, walking through the international avant-garde exhibit Tendenzen der zwanziger Jahre, on display in 1977 in the new Nationalgalerie built by Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe in the 1960s. Imagine Walter Benjamin as a flaneur in the city of boulevards and arcades he so admirably described, happening upon the Centre Georges Pompidou and its multi-media show Paris-Berlin 1900-1933, whic…
Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire
The Technological Imagination: Theories and Fictions
Man in the Age of Technology
Drama des Sturm und Drang. Kommentar zu einer Epoche
Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner
Andreas Huyssen, Adorno in Reverse: From Hollywood to Richard Wagner, New German Critique, No. 29, The Origins of Mass Culture: The Case of Imperial Germany (1871-1918) (Spring - Summer, 1983), pp. 8-38
Mapping the Postmodern
Commodity and Modernity in Heine and Benjamin
One hundred years later, in 1934 in Paris, Walter Benjamin wrote a text for the Institute for the Study of Fascism entitled The Author as Producer. This was followed a year later by The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. These two texts attempted to grasp, aesthetically and politically, new aspects of modernity. They were written alongside the opus magnum, the Passagen-Werk, which was to remain a fragment. Separated by a century, …
From counter-culture to neo-conservatism and beyond: Stages of the Postmodern
After the Great Divide
"One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " -Village Voice Literary Supplement"... his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." -American Literary History"... challenging and astute." -World Literature Today"Huyssen’s level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critica…
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
"One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " -Village Voice Literary Supplement"... his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." -American Literary History"... challenging and astute." -World Literature Today"Huyssen’s level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critica…
An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism
Citing works from film, literature, art, drama and critical theory, Huyssen maps out political positions of culture, and a history of its transformations from the late 19th century to the 1980s. Bibl. 19 p
The Heterotopian Space of the Discussions on Postmodernism
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