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Article: Blind Spots.(Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth Century Germany)(Book review)
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- Art Monthly
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- May 1, 2006
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Frederic J Schwartz, Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth Century Germany, Yale University Press, London, 2005, 256pp, 93illus, hb, 30.00 [pounds sterling], 0 300 10829 X.
Frederic Schwartz has written an invaluable book that succeeds in occupying completely new territory. Largely focusing on Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer, Blind Spots looks to Germany in the early 20th Century and asks what critical theory learnt from art history. This is not a new question, yet Schwartz argues that only Benjamin's relationship has been addressed in any detail and rarely in terms of his own art historical context.