The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art

Georges Didi-Huberman

The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Country
United States
Published
28 November 2016
Pages
432
ISBN
9780271072081

The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg’s History of Art

Georges Didi-Huberman

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 anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the life of images. Drawing on a wide range of Warburg’s unpublished letters and diaries, Didi-Huberman demonstrates unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburg’s ideas and the ways in which his legacy was both distorted and diffused as art history became a humanistic discipline. The Surviving Image takes Warburg as its main subject but also addresses broader questions regarding art historians’ conceptions of time, memory, and symbols and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche.

Faithfully and thoughtfully translated by Harvey Mendelsohn, this first English-language edition of Didi-Huberman’s masterful study of Warburg is a stirring and significant treatise on the philosophical nature of art history.

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