ENGL 40761 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Laurie Anderson, Duino Elegies, Sam Wagstaff
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Beginning: strange angels: laurie anderson and spirituality at the end of cold war by. The multimedia performance artist laurie andersoncreates work that draws easily from both the historical avant-garde and from the seemingly opposed realm of kitsch and cliche associated with popular culture . In the late 80s, anderson began to add to her political and cultural analyses more explicitly spiritual themes, especially in strange angels (1989) . Released at the destruction of the berlin wall and the ensuing. Responded to the phenomenon that the televisual spectacle of history . History of angels (who are they and what are their functions) for dissolution of the soviet union became a part of daily life. Three lineages: wim wenders" wings of desire (1987) and rilke"s duino. Elegies (1924: anselm kiefer"s sculptures angel of history (1989) and book with wings (1994), walter benjamin"s angel of history, and paul.
