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VOLUME IV - 2009
Volume IV, Issue 1, April 2009
This issue of Hyperion is dedicated to the memories of Harold Pinter and James Purdy.
Visual Art
The Picturesque Element in American Pop Art: or the Media in Disguise
by Marcella Tarozzi-Goldsmith
The Crisis of Cognition: On Memory and Perception in Chris Marker’s The Hollow Men
Chris Marker, “Quelle heure est-elle?”
by Rainer J. Hanshe
Dance
Mathinna
reviewed by Nicholas Birns
Theater
Layers of the Past: Parsifal at Bayreuth 2008
by Daniela Zimmermann
In English
In German
Our Two Cents Worth: An Opera of Work, Timeliness, Renewal
The Two-Cents Opera
reviewed by Nicholas Birns
Literature
Abandoned on the Mountains of the Heart
by Katja Brunkhorst
introduction by Rainer J. Hanshe
Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
written by Robert Musil
reviewed by Cecile Rossant
The World at a Glance
written by Edward Casey
reviewed by David Kleinberg-Levin
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VOLUME III - 2008
Volume III, Issue 4, December 2008
On Art
The Plummet-Measured Face
Ronald Bladen: Sculpture of the 1960s & 1970s
by Mark Daniel Cohen
The Form of Feeling
Raoul Hague: Selected Sculptures 1962 – 1975
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Grace Bakst Wapner’s Scholar’s Garden: An East-West Aesthetic Dialogue
Grace Bakst Wapner: A Scholar’s Garden
by Sara Lynn Henry
The World of Scholars’ Rocks
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Foreshadowings of the Kafkaesque in Alfred Kubin’s Drawings
Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897 – 1909
by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
On Literature
Ex-silentio Eloquence: poetry and philosophy in the middle of it
book review: The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy
written by Robert Baker
reviewed by Camelia Elias
On Theater
Hermann Nitsch and David Kilpatrick: A Conversation
Introduction by David Kilpatrick
Poetry
Where’er We Tread ’Tis Haunted Holy Ground
a poem by Camelia Elias
Poetry in Translation
5 Poems: Georges Bataille
translated by Mark Daniel Cohen
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Volume III, Issue 3, June 2008
On Art
Michelangelo
A Rage to Create
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Michelangelo: A Selection of Poems in Translation
translated by Mark Daniel Cohen
Out of the Heart of Light
Julie Hedrick: Awakening
by Mark Daniel Cohen
book review: Anselm Kiefer / Paul Celan:
Myth, Mourning and Memory
written by Andréa Lauterwein
reviewed by Kevin Hart
On Theater
Sacrificial Simulacra from Nietzsche to Nitsch
by David Kilpatrick
On Literature
book review: The Fragment:
Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre
written by Camelia Elias
reviewed by Sophie Thomas
On Film
book review: The Death of Cinema:
History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age
written by Paolo Cherchi Usai
reviewed by Joshua David Gonsalves
Volume III, Issue 2, April 2008
New Section
Letter to the Editors
by Phillip Arnautoff
On Theater
To Be Subjected to De-Subjectification
I.E., Non-Subjectified Thoughts
A Conversation with Richard Foreman
by Fulya Peker
Requiem Aeternam Deo
Excerpt from A Play for Everyone and Nobody
Based on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by Fulya Peker
New Ancient Gestures
An Interview with Gardzienice’s Wlodzimierz Staniewski
by David Kilpatrick
On Film
Interview with Roberto Chiesi on Pier Paolo Pasolini
by Rainer J. Hanshe
In English
In Italian
On Literature
book review: Anxious Pleasures
written by Lance Olsen
reviewed by Timothy Attanucci
Poetry in Translation
Rilke: A Selection of Poems in Translation
from Neue Gedichte and Der Neuen Gedichte anderer Teil
translated by Mark Daniel Cohen
Volume III, Issue 1, February 2008
On Music
Delusion 2.0; Harry Partch and the Philosopher’s Tone
Delusion of the Fury
Japan Society, December 7, 2007
by Philip Blackburn
On Literature
Interview with Katja Brunkhorst
by Angela C. Holzer
book review: Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Art
written by Aaron Ridley
reviewed by Benjamin Moritz
On Theater
Stoic Nihilism & the Beauty of Oblivion:
A Meditation on Beckett’s Happy Days
Happy Days
BAM, Brooklyn, NY, January 8 – February 2, 2008
by Rainer J. Hanshe
Mediated Understandings
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (A Richard Foreman Theater Machine)
Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York, January 22 – April 13, 2008
by Nicholas Birns
VOLUME II - 2007
Volume II, Issue 4, December 2007
On Art
Water Ambient Through Water
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Why Serra Matters
Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Special Section: Original Paper on Nietzschean Aesthetics
Nietzsche and the Future of Art
by Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen
On Literature
book review: ‘Verwandt-Verwandelt’. Nietzsche’s Presence in Rilke
written by Katja Brunkhorst
reviewed by Angela C. Holzer
Poetry in Translation
Nietzsche: A Selection of Poems in Translation
translated by Mark Daniel Cohen
Special Section: Original Play on Descartes
Renati the King
by Gian DiDonna
New Section!
The Hyperion Reading List
by the editors of Hyperion
Volume II, Issue 3, October 2007
On Art
The Hurtle of the Universe: The Critique of Pure Sculpture of David Rabinowitch
David Rabinowitch: Phantom Group
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
The Dynamism of the Beautiful
Joseph Raffael
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Wrestling with Nature: The Obscuring Mirror & the Dream of True Perception
Van Gogh and Expressionism
Neue Galerie, New York
by Rainer J. Hanshe
On Literature
The Body ‘Prefers Not To’: Nietzsche on Ethereal Run in Melville and Acker
by Camelia Elias
book review: Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative:
Schlegel, Byron, Joyce, Blanchot
written by Christopher A. Strathman
reviewed by Camelia Elias
book review: Pure Pagan: Seven Centuries of Greek Poems and Fragments
edited and translated by Burton Raffel
with an introduction by Guy Davenport
reviewed by Emily Fairey
book review: Anxious Pleasures
written by Lance Olsen
reviewed by Walter H. Sokel
New Section
Poetry in Translation
Yves Bonnefoy: A Selection of Poems in Translation
translated by Mark Daniel Cohen
Volume II, Issue 2, June 2007
On Literature
Writing the Apocalypse: Voicing Silence Through Time
Tadeusz Rózewicz, new poems
by Rainer J. Hanshe
On Art
The Rise of the Good-Enough: A Meditation on the Drawing as a Work of Art
Drawings In Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern
The Art Institute of Chicago
by Brian Robert Hischier
Volume II, Issue 1, February 2007
On Literature
The Century of Beckett
Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio: The Original Broadcasts
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Special Section: Agnes Denes
Manifesto, Mathematics in My Work, and Other Essays
by Agnes Denes
The Self-Intricating Art of the Mind
Agnes Denes: Uprooted & Deified—The Golden Tree
BravinLee programs, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
On Art
Islands in the Cosmos: Visions of Man Adrift and Apart
Odd Nerdrum, Paintings
Forum Gallery, New York
by Rainer J. Hanshe
The Visioning of the Loss
Adam Straus: Small Memorials for a Great Loss
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
The Trick of the Light
Karen Gunderson: Black Paintings
ClampArt, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
VOLUME I - 2006
Volume I, Issue 4, December 2006
The Skin of Perception: Phenomenology as a Cartesian Proposition
BODIES... The Exhibition
South Street Seaport Exhibition Centre, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Ecce Homo: The Tragic Passion of Auguste Rodin
Master Sculptor, Rodin in Istanbul
Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul
by Rainer J. Hanshe
Volume I, Issue 3, October 2006
Notes on a Visual Philosophy
by Agnes Denes
The Mood of the Matter: The Aesthetic Emotion at the Heart of Modernism
No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Volume I, Issue 2, August 2006
Figures Cut into the Air: The Ballet of Mathematical Elegance
David Smith: A Centennial
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen
Volume I, Issue 1, May 2006
The Phenomenological Loss of the Soul
Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul
MoMA, New York
by Mark Daniel Cohen