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Notes
1. This essay is adapted from the introduction to Franke, vol. 2. I gratefully acknowledge permission from the University of Notre Dame Press to reuse this material.
2. Some eminent examples are presented with primary texts in Franke, vols. 1 and 2. Some suggestive samples of criticism bridging these disciplines can be found in Schwartz and in Leonard.
3. The essays collected in Bulhof and ten Kate trace the “minimalist” echoes of the history of negative theology in modern and contemporary thinkers, though not in the arts. For resonances in the arts, see Vega.
4. Friedrich. See especially “Negative Kategorien” 19ff., “Das Sagen des Ungesagten; einige Stilmittel” and “Die Nähe des Schweigens” 88–90.
5. Letter to Eugène Lafébure, 17 May 1867, in Mallarmé 245–46. In a letter to Henri Cazalis of 14 May 1867 (240), Mallarmé writes of his unrecountable (inénarrable) experience of Eternity and of a “Conception Pure.”
6. See analyses of Mazzaro, Dickie 271–91, and Raab 291–308.
7. Bové and Altieri. For a comparable approach to European authors, see Perloff, Wittgenstein's.
8. Merwin, Selected 154. These lines serve as epigraph for Byers.
9. Lorenz. For recent German-language poetry largely revolving around the breakdown of language, see Braun and Thill.
10. Poetry of the ineffable in Spanish is discussed by Sepúlveda-Pulvirenti and Pérez. See further, Herrera and Gorga López.
11. John Cage's radically non-transcendental interpretation of silence as consisting in precisely this background noise, which is random and therefore the opposite of all organized sound, contrasts with this conception.
12. These ideas impregnate Jankélévitch's general philosophy also, as expounded in numerous works, including Jankélévitch, Le Je-ne-sais-quoi.
13. A reading of modern and postmodern art in just this key is offered by Taylor, Disfiguring chapters 1–4.
14. Reinhardt 90.
15. Ibid. 92. An extended negatively theological reading of Reinhardt's work and thought is developed by Taylor, “Think” 25–38.
16. See interview in Biot 96, and L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui 3. I owe these references to Bernhart.
17. Tafuri 312. Tafuri is also quoted by Taylor, Disfiguring 140f., who describes Mies's architecture from an apophatic, or more precisely “aphaeretic,” perspective.
18. Libeskind, Between and idem, Radix-Matrix.
19. Libeskind, “Trauma” 3–26. For theory of trauma, emphasizing themes of silence and survival, see Caruth.