Name: The Man Who Walked in Color
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Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
ISBN: 9781945414015

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georges Didi-Huberman

Translated by

Drew S. Burk

Publisher

Univocal Publishing

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.4x0.8 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN13

9781945414015

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Man Who Walked in Color"

For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and art: light. One crucial aspect of his work is the fabulation of place and vision with its foundation deep in history. Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey between the impossible limit of the horizon and the arrival into a site of reverie and light, from the story of Exodus to the Pala d'Oro of San Marco's Basilica in Venice, through art history and the origins of religious worship, finally plunging into Turrell's cadmium dust and light, into the Painted Desert of his installation Roden Crater. For the esteemed art historian, Turrell's artistic practice becomes the equivalent of walking along endless pathways in the desert, in "minuscule cathedrals where man discovers himself walking in color."

Georges Didi-Huberman

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Georges Didi-Huberman (Saint-Étienne, 1953) es un filósofo, historiador del arte y ensayista francés. Es profesor de la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), en París, donde desarrolla investigaciones sobre la historia y la teoría de las imágenes. Su trabajo combina filosofía, historia del arte, psicoanálisis y antropología para explorar cómo las imágenes construyen memoria y conocimiento.

Es autor de una extensa obra, en la que destacan Ante el tiempo, Lo que vemos, lo que nos mira, Imágenes pese a todo y La imagen superviviente. Su pensamiento ha tenido una importante influencia en los estudios contemporáneos sobre la imagen, especialmente por su interés en la memoria, la supervivencia de las formas y la relación entre arte, historia y experiencia.

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