This seminar examines a range of practices in writing, drawing, photography, painting, film, television, and other forms of notation and recording in the period 1968-1983. Topics will include political and literary writings associated with the German “student movement;” ends of the modernist novel in Uwe Johnson and Peter Weiss; the reception of conceptual art in the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann; systems of notation and documentation in Uwe Johnson, and Hanne Darboven; vicissitudes of historical representation in Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Alexander Kluge, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.