CONFRONTING IMAGES by Georges Didi-Huberman ( 9780271024721 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

CONFRONTING IMAGES
QUESTIONING THE ENDS OF A CERTAIN HISTORY OF ART

By:

Georges Didi-Huberman

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0271024720

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9780271024721

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Publisher:

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 September, 2005

Pages:

336

Synopsis:

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 Vasari and Panofsky. According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an 'underside' in which seemingly intelligible forms lose their clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he goes on to contend, have failed to engage this underside, where images harbor limits and contradictions, because their discipline is based upon the assumption that visual representation is made up of legible signs and lends itself to rational scholarly cognition.

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1 Charts; 18 Halftones, black and white

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Pennsylvania State University Press

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