Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art

by Georges Didi-Huberman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024720
• ISBN13: 9780271024721
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"