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- Gerhard Richter: Between the sayable and the intelligiblePublication . SUSIGAN, Cristina
- Gerhard Ritcher: between the sayable and the IntelligiblePublication . SUSIGAN, CristinaIt is a fact that the history of art has sought new theoretical foundations and new methodologies, driven by the desire to become more "global". In Peter Sloterdijk's thinking, art is more potent and therefore would reject any categorization (2014, 479), going beyond the sayable and the intelligible; Gilles Deleuze (2001: 88) says: "Art thinks only of philosophy, but thinks of objects and percepts". In the heated debate provoked by this desire for a more critical Art History, a question can be raised: Who holds the power in the field today and where do the theories that govern the interpretations emanate, for the restructuring of a more democratic and inclusive Art History? This communication aims to question the artistic representation produced after World War II and the multiple connections that help to sediment what we can call "the end of art", in the sense of Hans Belting - like the artist's liberation -, at the same time that debates the end of utopias of the vanguards. In a fragmented world, where according to Theodor Adorno it was impossible to produce poetry after Auschwitz, let us analyze the works of Gerhard Richter (1932-), whose works can be understood as mirrors to reflect a world in which reality and image are equally present in contemporary life, in search, according to the artist "of the truth of the image.