The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the
result of Georges Didi-Huberman’s extensive research into the
life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg
envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology,
psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the
“life” of images. Drawing on a wide range of Warburg’s
unpublished letters and diaries, Didi-Huberman demonstrates
unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburg’s ideas
and the ways in which his legacy was both distorted and diffused as
art history became a “humanistic” discipline. The Surviving
Image takes Warburg as its main subject but also addresses broader
questions regarding art historians’ conceptions of time, memory,
and symbols and the relationship between art and the rational and
irrational forces of the psyche. Faithfully and thoughtfully
translated by Harvey Mendelsohn, this first English-language
edition of Didi-Huberman’s masterful study of Warburg is a
stirring and significant treatise on the philosophical nature of
art history.
General
Imprint: |
Pennsylvania State University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2018 |
Authors: |
Georges Didi-Huberman
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Translators: |
Harvey Mendelsohn
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-271-07209-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-271-07209-1 |
Barcode: |
9780271072098 |
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