"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 circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied by a type of fly named pyrallis or pyrotocon, which was onl ..."
"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 illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered a breakdown and been institutionalized. It continues to influence contemporary artists today, including Gerhard Richter and Mark Dion. I ..."
"The traditional story of Renaissance painting is one of inexorable progress toward the exact representation of the real and visible. Georges Didi-Huberman disrupts this story with a new look--and a new way of looking--at the fifteenth-century painter Fra Angelico. In doing so, he alters our understanding of both early Renaissance art and the processes of art history. A Florentine painter who took Dominican vows, Fra Angelico (1400-1455 ..."
"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 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. Available today because they were smuggled out of th ..."
"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 his medium the most elemental material of sight and art: light. One crucial aspect of his work is the fabulation of place and vision with its foundation deep in history. Didi-Huberman takes the ..."
"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 ..."
"Is a motivating new four-skill series for young teenagers. It combines a communicative approach with National Geographic images video and content. The series features an educational syllabus that comprises four exciting content areas: people and places the natural world history and culture science and education.[...]"
"Scavenging, replicating, or remixing, many influential artists today reinvent a legacy of "stealing" images and forms from other makers. Among the diverse, often contestatory strategies included under the heading "appropriation" are the readymade, détournement, pastiche, rephotography, recombination, simulation and parody. Although appropropriation is often associated ..."
"The material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny human simulacra since ancient times--from phallic amulets offered to heal distressing conditions and life-size votive images crammed inside ..."
"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 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.           Available today because they were smuggle ..."
"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, ..."
"Gathering together photographs of stunningly realistic wax anatomies from Florence's Museo La Specola, Encyclopaedia Anatomica is a fascinating journey through the human body. Each chapter from the original volume is reduced here, though the most important views and studies have all been included."
"El artista es un inventor de lugares. Da forma da carne a espacios improbables, imposibles o impensables: aporías fábulas. El tipo de lugares que inventa James Turrell pasa en primer lugar por un trabajo con la luz: material incandescente o nocturno, evane"
"Se suele decir que una imagen es la imagen de algo, lo que supone cierta relación con el referente, el mundo real. ¿Cuál es la naturaleza de esta relación? Las artes modernas, con la fotografía en primer lugar, han modificado esta relación tanto en la prác"
El cubo y el rostro(1stEdition) En torno a una escultura de Alberto Giacometti (Lecturas de Historia del Arte) by GeorgesDidi-Huberman, Juan Calatrava Escobar Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2017 by Abada Editores ISBN-13: 978-84-16160-89-1, ISBN: 84-16160-89-9
"Over the 60 years of his artistic career, Gerhard Richter (born 1932) has produced a standard-setting oeuvre whose thematic and stylistic diversity has no equal among the art of our time. This extensive monograph is the first to present the complete range of the numerous works Richter realized as series, cycles and spaces. It includes figurative paintings, such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many of which are based on photogr ..."
"Broschiertes BuchIm 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 hielt, machte ein Mitgefangener vier Aufnahmen, die das Gelände um das Krematorium V zeigen.Georges Didi-Huberman widmet sich in seinem neuen Buch der Paradoxie dieser Bilder: daß sie so gut wie nichts zu sehen geben, aber gleichwoh ..."
"This book explores the relationship between images and language and probes the question of whether images, precisely where they intersect with the verbal realm, open up new insights that cannot easily be put into words. Recently, pictures have increasingly been understood as a medium of expression in their own right, but is it not the discussion of art, i.e., the representation of imagery through language, that produces momentous insigh ..."
"Antonio Machado Libros. Boadilla del Monte, Madrid. 2013. 22 cm. 252 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'El ojo de la historia', numero coleccion(1). Didi-Huberman, Georges 1953-. Traducción Inés Bértolo. Premio Internacional de Ensayo 2008, Círculo de Bellas Artes. Traducción de: Quand les images prennent position. Brecht, Bertolt. 1898-1956. Crítica e interpretación. Imágenes. Estética. S.XX. L'oeil ..."