Georges Didi-Huberman Philosopher and Art Historian, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Georges Didi-Huberman, philosopher and art historian, teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, where he has been a lecturer since 1990. He is a winner of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art given by the College Art Association. Born in Saint-Etienne on June 13, 1953, Didi-Huberman is the son of a painter. He studied philosophy and art history in Paris, complementing his studies in Rome (Academy of France), Florence (Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), and London (Institute of Advanced Study, Warburg Institute). He has written many books, including Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz; Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art; andInvention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. Participant In: Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1 Saturday, October 12th 9:00AM - 4:15PM Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Watch the video [Part 3] » This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric functions – and of affect… read more »
Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1 Saturday, October 12th 9:00AM - 4:15PM Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Watch the video [Part 3] » This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric functions – and of affect… read more »