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The Man Who Walked in Color
Georges Didi-Huberman
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Description for The Man Who Walked in Color
Paperback. Translator(s): Burk, Drew S. Series: Univocal. Num Pages: 80 pages, 18. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 203 x 51. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Univocal Publishing LLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Univocal
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781945414015
SKU
V9781945414015
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About Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman is lecturer at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He has published more than twenty books on art history and philosophy and received the 2015 Theodor W. Adorno Prize. Drew S. Burk is a cultural theorist, editor, and translator of contemporary French philosophy.
Reviews for The Man Who Walked in Color
Burk's translation of Didi-Huberman's The Man Who Walked in Color allows the flesh of words to express the flesh of colour and light, the solidity and volume of fabled spaces, and the quickness and the obdurateness of material objects and surfaces. Beautifully produced, this book is an elegant visual complement to the original Minuit edition of Didi-Huberman's essay. -French Studies ... Read more