Confronting Images

Confronting Images
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 0271024712
ISBN-13 : 9780271024714
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Book Synopsis Confronting Images by : Georges Didi-Huberman

Download or read book Confronting Images written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.


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