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Surviving Image:

Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art
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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 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 Drawing on a wide range of Warburg's unpublished letters and diaries, Didi-Huberman demonstrates unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburg's ideas and the ways in which his legacy was both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. The Surviving Image 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.
 

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Translator’s Note

Chapter 1: The Image as Phantom: Survival of Forms and Impurities of Time

Chapter 2: The Image as Pathos: Lines of Fracture and Formulas of Intensity

Chapter 3: The Image as Symptom: Fossils in Motion and Montages of Memory

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“When Georges Didi-Huberman’s The Surviving Image was first published in French, it transformed the image of Warburg as the scholar immersed in the arcana of Renaissance magic, art, and philosophy, and he gained his place as a theorist, urgently questioning the nature of inquiry into art history and visual culture. Ostensibly about Warburg, the range and significance of this key work of art theory and historiography is far wider, for it deals with important philosophical questions to do with art, memory, time, and the construction of art-historical knowledge. Harvey Mendelsohn has created a lucid and elegant translation, an admirable accomplishment that will ensure that this book gains the wider readership it deserves.”

—Matthew Rampley, author of The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918

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