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The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art

By (author) Georges Didi-Huberman, Translated by Harvey Mendelsohn

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The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi-Hubermanâ€™s extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the â€œlifeâ€ of images. Drawing on a wide range of Warburgâ€™s unpublished letters and diaries, Didi-Huberman demonstrates unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburgâ€™s ideas and the ways in which his legacy was both distorted and diffused as art history became a â€œhumanisticâ€ discipline. The Surviving Image takes Warburg as its main subject but also addresses broader questions regarding art historiansâ€™ conceptions of time, memory, and symbols and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche. Faithfully and thoughtfully translated by Harvey Mendelsohn, this first English-language edition of Didi-Hubermanâ€™s masterful study of Warburg is a stirring and significant treatise on the philosophical nature of art history.