Nietzsche and the Future of Art

By Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen

Footnotes

(1) Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist Antichrist, fourth ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974) 10.

(2) Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: The Modern Library, 1968) 46.

(3) Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Basic Writings of Nietzsche 179.

(4) Nietzsche, ksa 8.187. (translation by the authors)

(5) Nietzsche, ksa 6.393. (“Das Feuerzeichen” Dionysos-Dithyramben, translation by the authors)

(6) Nietzsche, ksa 11.24. (translation by the authors)

(7) Stéphane Mallarmé, quoted in Arthur Symons, “On Stéphane Mallarmé,” The Symbolist Poem, ed. Edward Engelberg (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1967) 326.

(8) Guillaume Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters,” Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, Herschel B. Chipp (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1968) 224. Compare with Nietzsche, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” section 19, Twilight of the Idols, The Portable Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Penguin Books, 1977) 526.

(9) Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters” 224.

(10) Nietzsche, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” section 19, Twilight of the Idols 525.

(11) Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters” 222.

(12) Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters” 227.

(13) Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters” 222.

(14) Apollinaire, “The Cubist Painters” 222.

(15) Nietzsche, “Attempt at a Self-Criticism,” The Birth of Tragedy 17.

(16) Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, trans. with an introduction by M. T. H. Sadler (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977) 14.

(17) Kandinsky, “Whither the ‘New’ Art?” Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art, ed. Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo (Boston: Da Capo Press, 1994) 103.

(18) Kandinsky, “Whither the ‘New’ Art?” 98.

(19) Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art 1-2.

(20) Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art 4.

(21) Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art 4.

(22) Kandinsky, “Whither the ‘New’ Art?” 99.

(23) Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art 11.

(24) Nietzsche, section 347, The Gay Science, trans. with commentary by Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1974) 288.

(25) Kandinsky, “Whither the ‘New’ Art?” 99.

(26) Kandinsky, “Whither the ‘New’ Art?” 102-3.

(27) On Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, see Art in Theory: 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, ed. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd., 1992) 160. On the Futurist painters, see Caroline Tisdall and Angelo Bozzolla, Futurism (New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1977) 18, 32, 55, 89.

(28) Ezra Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska (New York: New Directions Books, 1970) 92,

(29) Naum Gabo, “The Realistic Manifesto,” Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics 328.

(30) Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, “Statement,” Art in Theory: 1900 – 1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas, ed. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1996) 562.

(31) Gottlieb, Rothko, and Newman 562.

(32) Gottlieb, Rothko, and Newman 563.

(33) Gottlieb, Rothko, and Newman 574.

(34) Arnold Schönberg, “The Relationship to the Text,” The Blaue Reiter Almanac, ed. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc (New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1974) 92.

(35) Schönberg 92.

(36) Robert Musil. Gesammelte Werke in zwei Bänden, Hrsg. v. A. Frise, Reinbek, 1978, Bd. 1, 1882. (Zitiert als Musil-2 Bde.) Collected works in two volumes, ed. by A. Frise, Reinbek, 1978, vol. 1, 1882. (quoted as Musil-2 vol.) (translation by the authors)

(37) Musil. Gesammelte Werke in neun Bänden, Hrsg. v. A. Frise, Reinbek, 1978, Bd. 1, 250. (Zitiert als Musil-9 Bde.) Collected works in nine volumes, ed. by A. Frise, Reinbek, 1978, vol. 1, 250. (Quoted as Musil-9 vol.) (translation by the authors)

(38) Musil-9 Bde, 1978, Bd. 8, 1334. Musil-9 vol., 1978, vol. 8, 1334. (translation by the authors)

(39) Musil-9 Bde, 1978, Bd. 1, 16. Musil-9 vol., 1978, vol. 1, 16. (translation by the authors)

(40) Musil-9 Bde, 1978, Bd. 8, 1029. Musil-9 vol., 1978, vol. 8, 1029. (translation by the authors)

(41) T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” “Four Quartets,” T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems: 1909 – 1962 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1970), 175.

(42) Eliot 199.

(43) Arthur C. Danto, “Narratives of the End of Art,” in Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (New York: The Noonday Press, 1991), 341-342.

(44) Nietzsche, “Attempt at a Self-Criticism” 20.

(45) Danto 343.

(46) John Cage, For the Birds (Boston and London: Marion Boyars Publishers, 1995), 201.

(47) Cage 80.

(48) Cage 80-81.

(49) Cage 80.

(50) Cage 186.

(51) Cage 95.

(52) Cage 79.

(53) Cage 94.

(54) Cage 46.

(55) Cage 147-149.

(56) Cage 73.

(57) Cage 119.

(58) Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984) 8.

(59) Kundera 5.

(60) Kundera 5.

(61) Kundera 28.

(62) Kundera 88.

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