Adorno read late works as climaxes across art history
Evidence
What Adorno saw as the explanation for Beckett’s greatness was, in his view, at the same time characteristic of previous climaxes of art, the late works of pre-modern artists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2722 (
#exemplifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Adorno linked Beckett’s greatness to the late style of earlier masters — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2722
Related
- Adorno linked Beckett’s greatness to the late style of earlier masters (similarity 0.96)
- Adorno regarded Beckett and Celan as heirs of heroic modernism, not contemporaries of it. (similarity 0.86)
- Adorno’s modernism was historicist, not prescriptive about art’s future (similarity 0.80)
- Adorno’s artists embody moments in the history of form as lived unities of contradiction (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Adorno linked Beckett’s greatness to the late style of earlier masters
#exemplifies(0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2722