MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-10022643947X
ISBN-139780226439471
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038261301
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAtlas, or the Anxious Gay Science
Publication Year2018
SubjectHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, European
TypeTextbook
AuthorShane B. Lillis, Georges. Didi-Huberman
Subject AreaArt, Social Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight20.6 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2017-056081
ReviewsThe central question in the books in the series is how images--or better, a montage of images--can provide a form of knowledge about various forms of oppression and suffering throughout the course of history, conjoined with a desire to rise up against this oppression and to cope with the burden: a predicament for which the mythological figure of Atlas serves as an emblem. . . . The book itself offers a wealth of reflections on artists such as Francisco Goya, Charles Baudelaire, Katsushika Hokusai and others, and explores theoretical insights from Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, and Theodor Adorno. The sheer number of artists and theorists that make an appearance in the book and that Didi-Huberman discusses is truly overwhelming. When reading the book, which pairs many images with Didi-Huberman's beautiful sentences . . . it becomes apparent that the style of the book reflects its topic: just like the atlas, Didi-Huberman imaginatively traces affinities and correspondences between various artists and theorists without glossing over their differences. . . . With Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science , the English reader has now one of the best entry points into the fascinating and ever-expanding universe that Didi-Huberman has been creating and in which it is a great pleasure to lose oneself.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal709
Table Of ContentList of Figures I. Disparates: "Reading What Was Never Written" The Inexhaustible, or Knowledge through Imagination Heritage of Our Time: The Mnemosyne Atlas Visceral, Sidereal, or How to Read the Liver of a Sheep Madness and Truths of the Incommensurable Tables for Collecting the Parceling-Out of the World Heterotopias, or the Cartographies of Defamiliarization Leopard, Starry Sky, Smallpox, Spatter II. Atlas: "Carrying the Whole World of Sufferings" A Titan Bent under the Burden of the World Gods in Exile and Knowledge in Suffering Survivals of Tragedy, Aurora of the Anxious Gay Science " El sueño de la razón produce monstruos " An Anthropology from the Point of View of the Image Samples of Chaos, or the Poetics of Phenomena Points of Origin and Links of Affinity Atlas and the Wandering Jew, or the Age of Poverty III. Disasters: "The Dislocation of the World: That Is the Subject of Art" Tragedy of Culture and Modern "Psychomachias" Explosions of Positivism, or the "Crisis of European Sciences" Warburg Facing the War: Notizkästen 115-18 The Seismograph Explodes Panoramic Tables to Return from the Disaster The Atlas of Images and the Surveying Gaze ( Übersicht ) The Inexhaustible, or Knowledge through Re-montage Bibliographical Note Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisAby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered a breakdown and been institutionalized. It continues to influence contemporary artists today, including Gerhard Richter and Mark Dion. In this illustrated exploration of Warburg and his great work, Georges Didi-Huberman leaps from Mnemosyne Atlas into a set of musings on the relation between suffering and knowledge in Western thought, and on the creative results of associative thinking. Deploying writing that delights in dramatic jump cuts reminiscent of Warburg's idiosyncratic juxtapositions, and drawing on a set of sources that ranges from ancient Babylon to Walter Benjamin, Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science is rich in Didi-Huberman's trademark combination of elan and insight.
LC Classification NumberB105.I47D5313 2018
