The surviving image : phantoms of time and time of phantoms : Aby Warburg's history of art

Originally published in French in 2002, The Surviving Image is an extensive examination of 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 Drawing on a wide range of Warburg's unpublished letters and diaries, Georges Didi-Huberman demonstrates the complexity and importance of Warburg's ideas and the ways in which his legacy was both distorted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. He 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. L’image survivante, 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 drew from 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 Drawing on a wide range of Warburg’s unpublished letters and diaries, Didi-Huberman demonstrates unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburg’s ideas and the ways in which his legacy was both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. L’image survivante takes Warburg as its main subject, but also addresses broader questions regarding art historians’ conceptions of time, memory, 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.-- The image as phantom : survival of forms and impurities of time -- The image as pathos : lines of fracture and formulas of intensity -- The image as symptom : fossils in motion and montages of memory. Georges Didi-Huberman ; translated by Harvey L. Mendelsohn. Originally published in French in 2002 [under the title L'image survivante : histoire de l'art et temps des fantômes selon Aby Warburg. Paris : Editions de Minuit], examines the life and work of art historian Aby Warburg. Demonstrates the complexity and importance of Warburg's ideas, addressing broader questions regarding art historians' conceptions of time, memory, symbols, and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche--Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-391) and index. "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."--Publisher's description Fin 2 2017 2 CHAPTER 1 3 CHAPTER 2 3 CHAPTER 3 3 ILLUSTRATIONS 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE 6 THE IMAGE AS PHANTOM 9 Survival of Forms and Impurities of Time 9 THE IMAGE AS PATHOS 75 fines of Fracture and Formulas of Intensity 75 | 142 j; 142 .LAOCHO OHTi. 151 .wall 163 THE IMAGE AS SYMPTOM 182 fossils in Motion and Montages of Memory 182 Clothes 217 0^eint atone 5510 Shop ^Flight 217 cbvton g Mcteon 228 NOTES 348 BIBLIOGRAPHY 370 INDEX 399 ytjtS fl 6 flP 421