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Georges Didi Huberman

    Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher and art historian whose work delves into the history and theory of images. He investigates how images are made, how they endure, and how they shape our perception of reality. His approach is deeply analytical, often exploring the hidden meanings within visual works. Didi-Huberman's extensive writings offer readers a new way to consider art and its role in society.

    Georges Didi Huberman
    Bark
    The cube and the face
    Images in Spite of All
    Eye of History
    Confronting Images
    Being a Skull
    • 2023

      Myslet filmem

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Film je „forma, která myslí,“ poznamenal již režisér Jean-Luc Godard. Skladba obrazů a zvuků dokáže formulovat určité ideje, ale také reflektovat materiální, formální a narativní prvky, jež filmové médium utvářejí. Přežívá však myšlení filmem i v době digitální a postfilmové?Projekt Myslet filmem se zaměřuje na způsoby, jakými současné audiovizuální umění filmovou řeč nejen posouvá, nýbrž i navrací k jejím kořenům. Autoři textů v knize: Jiří Anger, Sandra Baborovská, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sergej Ejzenštejn, Noemi Purkrábková, Ondřej Vavrečka.

      Myslet filmem
    • 2023

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      Movements of air
    • 2018

      Survival of the Fireflies

      • 112 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.8(28)Add rating

      Originally published in French as Survivances des lucioles, copyright 2009 by Les Editions de Minuit . . . Paris-- Verso title page.

      Survival of the Fireflies
    • 2018

      Eye of History

      • 282 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, War Primer, with war photographs clipped from magazines and adding his own epigrammatic commentary. In this book, Georges Didi-Huberman explores the interaction of politics and aesthetics in these creations, explaining how they became the means for Brecht, a wandering poet in exile, to take a position about the Nazi war in Europe. Illustrated with pages from the Arbeitsjournal and War Primer and contextual images including Raoul Hausmann's poem-posters and Walter Benjamin's drawings, The Eye of History offers a new view of important but little-known works by Brecht.

      Eye of History
    • 2017

      Bark

      • 136 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
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      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 these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman's meditations on his visit, recorded in this spare, poetic, and powerful book. Bark is a personal account, drawing not on the theoretical apparatus of scholarship but on Didi- Huberman's own history, memory, and knowledge. The text proceeds as a series of reflections, accompanied by Didi-Huberman's photographs of the visit. The photographs are not meant to be art - Didi-Huberman confesses that he photographed practically everything without looking - but approach it nevertheless.

      Bark
    • 2017
    • 2016

      Being a Skull

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      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 a careful study of Penone's work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey through various modes of thinking by way of being. Taking Penone's artwork "Being the river" as a thematic starting point, Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists through the centuries have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. From Leonardo da Vinci to Albrecht Dürer, Didi-Huberman guides us to the work of Penone and from there, into the attempts of a sculptor whose works strives to touch thought. What we uncover is a sculptor whose work becomes a series of traces of the site of thought. Attempting to trace, by way of a series of frottages, reports, and developments, this imperceptible zone of contact. The result is a kind of fossil of the brain: the site of thought, namely, the site for getting lost and for disproving space. Sculpting at the same time what inhabits as well as what incorporates us.

      Being a Skull
    • 2015

      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. With The Cube and the Face , renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful analysis of Cube , consulting the artist’s sketches, etchings, texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and after Cube was created. Cube , he finds, is indeed exceptional—a work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, Cube marks the transition between the artist’s surrealist and realist phases and contains many elements of Giacometti’s aesthetic consciousness, including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body to geometry, and the portrait—or what Didi-Huberman terms “abstract anthropomorphism.” Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others whom Giacometti counted as influences, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti’s art with a new approach to transitional work.

      The cube and the face
    • 2012

      Images in Spite of All

      • 248 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      Of one-and-a-half million photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. This book reveals that these photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance.

      Images in Spite of All
    • 2005

      Confronting Images

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      Presents arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and Panofsky.

      Confronting Images