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Confronting Images

Paperback • 2005 • English

Confronting Images: Questioning the ends of a certain history of art

By Georges Didi-Huberman

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<p>When the French edition of <i>Confronting Images</i> 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 ...Show more

History of art
History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)
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9780271024721

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Confronting Images

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Paperback

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