Georges Didi-Huberman

Georges Didi-Huberman FBA (born 13 June 1953) is a French philosopher and art historian.

Biography

Georges Didi-Huberman was born on 13 June 1953 in Saint-Étienne.
He has been a scholar at the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) and resident in the Berenson Foundation of Villa I Tatti in Florence.
He teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, where he has been a lecturer since 1990.

Honours

He is the 2015 recipient of the Adorno Prize.

In July 2017, Didi-Huberman was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Published work

* ''Invention de l’hystérie. Charcot et l’Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière'', sur l' École de la Salpêtrière, Macula, 1982 (translated into English as ''Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière'', MIT Press, 2004).
* ''Mémorandum de la peste. Le fléau d’imaginer'', Christian Bourgois, 1983.
* ''La Peinture incarnée'' followed by ''Chef-d'œuvre inconnu'' de Balzac, Minuit, 1985.
* ''Fra Angelico. Dissemblance et figuration'', Flammarion, 1990 (translated into English as ''Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration'', Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995).
* ''Devant l’image. Questions posées aux fins d'une histoire de l'art'', Minuit, 1990 (translated into English as ''Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art'', Penn State Univ. Press, 2004).
* ''Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde'', Minuit, 1992.
* ''Le Cube et le visage. Autour d’une sculpture d’Alberto Giacometti'' Macula, 1992 (translated into English as ''The Cube and the Face: Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti'', Diaphanes, 2015).
* ''L'Empreinte du ciel'', présentation des ''Caprices de la foudre'', Éditions Antigone, 1994.
* ''La Ressemblance informe, ou Le gai savoir visuel selon Georges Bataille'', Macula, 1995.
* ''Phasmes. Essais sur l'apparition'', Minuit 1998.
* ''L’Étoilement'', sur Simon Hantaï, Minuit, 1998.
* ''La Demeure, la souche'', sur Pascal Convert, Minuit, 1999.
* ''Ouvrir Vénus. Nudité, rêve, cruauté'', Gallimard, 1999.
* ''Devant le temps'', Minuit, 2000.
* ''Être crâne'', sur Giuseppe Penone, Minuit, 2000 (translated into English as ''Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture'', Univocal Publishing, 2016).
* ''L’Homme qui marchait dans la couleur'', sur James Turrell, Minuit, 2001 (translated into English as ''The Man Who Walked in Color'', Univocal Publishing, 2017).
* ''Génie du non-lieu'', sur Claudio Parmiggiani, Minuit, 2001.
* ''L’Image survivante'', Minuit, 2002 (translated into English as ''The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms'', Penn State Univ. Press, 2016).
* ''Ninfa moderna. Essai sur le drapé tombé'', Gallimard, 2002.
* ''Images malgré tout'', Minuit, 2004 (translated into English as ''Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz'', Univ. of Chicago Press, 2012).
* ''Gestes d’air et de pierre'', Minuit, 2005.
* ''Le Danseur des solitudes'', sur Israel Galván, Minuit, 2006.
* ''L'Image ouverte. Motifs de l'incarnation dans les arts visuels'', Gallimard, 2007.
* ''La Ressemblance par contact'', Minuit, 2008.
* ''L'Œil de l'histoire – Tome 1 : Quand les images prennent position'', Minuit, 2009 (translated into English as ''The Eye of History: When Images Take Positions'', MIT Press, 2018).
* ''Survivance des lucioles'', Minuit, 2009 (translated into English as ''Survival of the Fireflies'', Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2018).
* ''L'Œil de l'histoire – Tome 2 : Remontages du temps subi'', Minuit, 2010.
* ''L’Œil de l'Histoire – Tome 3 : Atlas ou le gai savoir inquiet'', Minuit, 2011 (translated into English as ''Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science'', Univ. of Chicago Press, 2018).
* ''Écorces'', Minuit, 2011 (translated into English as ''Bark'', MIT Press, 2017).
* ''L'Œil de l'histoire – Tome 4 : Peuples exposés, peuples figurants'', Minuit, 2012.
* ''Essayer voir'', Minuit, 2014, .

Notes and references

*Revue ''Nunc'' numéro 26, février 2012 – Cahier G. Didi-Huberman dirigé par Jérôme de Gramont – Editions de Corlevou

External links

Bibliographie (2005–2010) du séminaire de Georges Didi-Huberman à l'EHESS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
« Au bord de la mémoire »
Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman for Radio Web MACBA (2015) about the problems regarding the way in which we see and interpret images.

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French art historians
French philosophers
1953 births
Living people
French male non-fiction writers
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
Prix Médicis essai winners