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"This work examines specified works of art within the context of Reception Theory, associated with Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, and the aesthetic theories of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Martin Heidegger and Victor Shklovsky, to illustrate the commonalities between works of art in terms of thematic content and the use of 'interruptive' techniques. This manuscript examines the Jewish Museum Berlin by Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind, the painting cycle October 18, 1977 by German painter Gerhard Richter, and three installations - ""Incident at the Museum"", or ""Water Music""; ""Healing with Paintings""; and the ""Communal Kitchen"" - by Russian artist Ilya Kabakov. The author utilizes Reception Theory, and other aesthetic theories, to illustrate the commonalities between the works of art and their capacity to create the conditions for the possibility of a valid aesthetic experience in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of the works addresses issues of memory, loss, mourning or exile, and does so in a manner that acknowledges and successfully contributes to the development of its respective medium (whether architecture, painting or installation). Such innovations are revealed to a greater degree when the works are considered in conjunction with one another rather than separately."

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... Koenig uses interruption to articulate how the works she explores participate in larger conversations on the same general problem: how to address the aftermath of totalitarianism and how to live with each other (and the dead) in that aftermath. - Prof. Thomas Patin Northern Arizona University Striking a suspenseful balance between the historical and political contexts of each example and their less obvious philosophical links, [this work] guides us through difficult and troubling territory but rewards us with an understanding of what Libeskind calls the tension between 'what can be told and what can never be told.' - Prof. Douglas Zullo Hartwick College

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