The Eye of History
When Images Take Positions
- Hardcover
282 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2018
Summary
An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht’s “photoepigrams.“An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht’s “photoepigrams.“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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262037877 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262037874 |
| Author: | Georges Didi-Huberman, Shane B. Lillis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 282 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 868g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 14mm |
| Series: | RIC BOOKS (Ryerson Image Centre Books) |
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About The Author
Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria- Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpatri re (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All- Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image- Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms- Aby Warburg’s History of Art.Shane B. Lillis is a researcher, translator, and lecturer at the University of Nantes, France.
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