Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus
Graphic of Capitalist Realism
1967
«[…] the German Pop Art initiative called Capitalist Realism, which culminated in the famous catalogue raisonné, "Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus", by René Block in 1971, Brehmer worked for decades on the inversion of the capitalist economy of knowledge production by decoding its forms of visual nomination. His reflection on the means of formalization in a context of public display enabled the political to take place without shouting the word "political." His expropriation of Western concepts of typography, cartography, thermography and colour theory reveals the ways in which visual appearances are implicated in economics.»
MENDE, Doreen: «A test extending beyond the action», http://www.caac.es/prensa/dossiers/pres_brehmer01.pdf
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