Bark
- Hardcover
136 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2017
Summary
A noted French thinker’s poignant reflections, in words and photographs, on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau.On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman’s meditations on his visit, recorded in this spare, poetic, and powerful book. Bark is a personal accoun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262036849 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262036843 |
| Author: | Georges Didi-Huberman, Samuel E. Martin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 16mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Bark is a slim, poignant, controlled narrative, yet is presented as an irrepressible and unpremeditated stream of writing.
Bark is a slim, poignant, controlled narrative, yet is presented as an irrepressible and unpremeditated stream of writing.
—Guylaine Massoutre, Le DevoirBark is the exploration of a gaze, and the exploration, through looking, of what is looked at. What is looked at are photographs, as well as a place: Auschwitz-Birkenau.
—Jean-Philippe Cazier, MediapartAbout The Author
Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman, a philosopher and art historian based in Paris, teaches at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales. Recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize, he is the author of more than fifty books on the history and theory of images, including Invention of Hysteria- Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpatri re (MIT Press), Bark (MIT Press), Images in Spite of All- Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and The Surviving Image- Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms- Aby Warburg’s History of Art.Samuel E. Martin teaches French at the University of Pennsylvania
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