Georges Didi-Huberman - Böcker

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circ...

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Den franske filosofen Georges Didi-Huberman har i flera studier underso?kt fotografiets betydelse som kunskapska?lla. Under senare a?r har han ofta a?terkommit till fotografiet som fo?rmedlare av historisk kunskap och sa?rskilt i relation till Fo?...

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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 anthropo...

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Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illumina...

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What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative t...

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A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at th...

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What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "e;people"e; as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative...

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Of one-and-a-half-million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. "Images in Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwit...

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Of one-and-a-half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in "Spite of All" reveals that these rare photos of Auschwit...

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Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illumina...

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An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's "photoepigrams." From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic a...

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A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at the...

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A noted French thinker's poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at the...

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The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria. In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intima...

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When the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far-reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vas...

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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 anthropo...

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In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked. In Francois Caillat's provocative ...

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What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to touch thought? For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through...

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For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as h...

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Uprisings is based on a cross-disciplinary exhibition on the theme of collective emotions and political events involving crowds of people in revolt: social disorder, political agitation, uprisings, rebellions, revolutions, and riots - disturbances...

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Au fil des etudes, il est question du statut et des enjeux theologiques des images, de la reception des A uvres, de leurs effets de sujet et d'objet, de l'organisation du savoir qui sous-tend les productions artistiques ou encore du travtravail in...

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Two important essays on Etienne-Jules Marey published for the first time in English alongside his breathtaking images of moving air and smoke. Featuring more than one hundred and fifty photographs and images, Movements of Air reprints the breathta...

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Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality.        ...

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Die Frage nach dem Verhaltnis von Bild und Sprache ist von unveranderter Aktualitat. Zuletzt sind Bilder verstarkt in Konkurrenz zur Sprache als Ausdrucksmedium eigenen Rechts verstanden worden. Der Band will an diese Diskussionen anknupfen, sie a...

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Wie kann man ein Bild verstehen? Indem man die Erinnerung und das Gedächtnis befragt, die in einem Bild am Werk sind, das »Nachleben«, so die Antwort Georges Didi-Hubermans. Er nähert sich dem Phantomcharakter der Bilder im Anschluss an Aby Warbur...

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Wie kann man sehen, ohne das Sichtbare dem Glauben zu opfern? Und wie können wir umgekehrt der Versuchung widerstehen, das Sichtbare tautologisch auf sich selbst zu reduzieren? Zwischen zwei - Joyce und Kafka entliehenen - Parabeln soll vor dem ei...

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Im August 1944 gelang zwei Häftlingen des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz eine Serie fotografischer Aufnahmen der Exekutionen. Während einer der beiden Häftlinge die Wachmänner der SS im Auge behielt, machte ein Mitgefangener vier Aufnahmen, die da...

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»Ein echtes Juwel, meisterhaft und bewegend.« (franceinfo:culture) Von 1939 bis 1943 sammelten und versteckten Emanuel Ringelblum und seine Gefährten der Gruppe Oyneg Shabes unter unvorstellbaren Bedingungen Zehntausende von Zeugnissen über das Le...

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Zwei einflussreiche Fotobücher von Adam Broomberg und Oliver Chanarin stehen im Zentrum dieser Publikation, die eine Ausstellung im Centre Pompidou begleitet: War Primer 2 und Holy Bible. Es sind Fotobücher, die sich mit Bildern von Gewalt, Krieg ...

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