Confronting Images

Questioning The Ends Of A Certain History Of Art

by Georges Didi-Huberman
language: english
Publisher: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS, December of 2004 ‧
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According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, He suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.

Confronting Images

Questioning The Ends Of A Certain History Of Art

by Georges Didi-Huberman

Property Description
ISBN: 9780271024714
Publisher: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December of 2004
Language: English
Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 28 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Format: Book
Collection: Buildings, Landscapes, And Societies Series
Categories: Books in English > Art > Aesthetics
EAN: 9780271024714

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Georges Didi-Huberman

Georges Didi-Huberman, historiador de arte e filósofo, lecciona na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, em Paris. Herdeiro intelectual de Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin e Georges Bataille, tem consagrado a sua reflexão a uma leitura crítica da tradição da história da arte e do pensamento das imagens.

Abrangendo tanto as artes visuais e a história da arte, como a psicanálise e as ciências humanas, Didi-Huberman publicou mais de 40 títulos, traduzidos em várias línguas. a sua obra recobre uma multiplicidade assombrosa de temas e artistas, da histeria ao Holocausto, de Fra Angelico a Pasolini, entre outros.

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