Name: Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture
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Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
ISBN: 9781937561703

portada Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture

Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georges Didi-Huberman

Publisher

Univocal Publishing

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.4x0.8 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9781937561703

Synopsis "Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture"

What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to touch thought? For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through a careful study of Penone's work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey through various modes of thinking by way of being. Taking Penone's artwork "Being the river" as a thematic starting point, Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists through the centuries have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. From Leonardo da Vinci to Albrecht Dürer, Didi-Huberman guides us to the work of Penone and from there, into the attempts of a sculptor whose works strives to touch thought. What we uncover is a sculptor whose work becomes a series of traces of the site of thought. Attempting to trace, by way of a series of frottages, reports, and developments, this imperceptible zone of contact. The result is a kind of fossil of the brain: the site of thought, namely, the site for getting lost and for disproving space. Sculpting at the same time what inhabits as well as what incorporates us.

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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