Re-ReleaseEp. 48 - Anselm Kiefer's "Margarete" and "Sulamith" (1981)

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A year ago today, we released our most ambitious episode yet: an exploration of postwar German artist Anselm Kiefer's layered, dense, enormous canvases that themselves respond to the enormity of Holocaust survivor Paul Celan's layered, dense poem, "Todesfugue." In honor of it taking the gold in podcasting at the American Alliance of Museums' MuseWeb awards, we're re-releasing the episode, and with it the layers of metaphor and materials, texture and text, golden straw and blackened ash, that comprise the unimaginable. This episode was produced with support from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Learn more at www.sfmoma.com. See the images: bit.ly/31gUSwW Music used: The Blue Dot Sessions, “The Bus at Dawn,” “Silky,” Drone Pine,” “Tiny Bottles,” “Inamorata,” “Tapoco,” “The Summit,” “Cirrus,” “Derailed,” “Insatiable Toad,” “Dolly and Pad,” “A Pleasant Strike” John Williams, performed by Itzhak Perlman & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, “Theme from Schindler’s List” Support the show: www.patreon.com/lonelypalette AAM MuseWeb award press release: https://bit.ly/37hItwi

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0:00.0	This is the lonely palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses one object at a time.
0:07.0	I'm Tamara Vichai. Tautus foge.
0:15.0	Soghe.
0:17.0	Swarte milk the affruhe,
0:22.0	Black milk of daybreak, we drink it at evening, we drink it at midday and morning, we drink it at night, we drink and we drink, we drink it at night, we drink and we drink.
0:30.0	We shovel a grave in the air, There you won't lie too cramped.
0:35.0	A man lives in the house, he plays with his vipers, he writes.
0:38.0	He writes when it grows dark to Deutschlan.
0:42.0	Your gold is. it grows dark to Deutschland. Your golden hair, Marguerite. He writes it and steps out of
0:48.4	doors and the stars are all sparkling. He whistles his hounds to come close. He whistles his Jews into rows, has them
0:56.2	shovel a grave in the ground. He orders us, strike up and play for the dance.
1:09.0	Black milk of daybreak of daybreak.
1:10.0	We drink you at night.
1:11.0	We drink you at morning and midday, we drink you at evening, we drink and we drink.
1:16.9	A man lives in the house, he plays with his vipers, he writes, he writes when it grows dark
1:22.3	to Deutschland,
1:24.0	Your golden hair, Marguerite,
1:26.2	Your ashen hair chulamite.
1:28.6	We shovel a grave in the air,
1:30.1	There you won't lie too cramped.
1:32.4	He shouts, jab this earth deeper, you lot. There you won't lie too cramped.
1:32.6	He shouts,
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