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

This biographical article is written like a résumé. (September 2022)

Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman interviewed by Radio Web MACBA
Born	(1953-06-13) 13 June 1953 (age 69) Saint-Étienne, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Philosopher, 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.[1]

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. ISBN 978-2-7073-2136-7
• 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, ISBN 978-2-7073-2365-1.

Notes and references

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

External links

• Bibliographie (2005–2010) du séminaire de Georges Didi-Huberman à l'EHESS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
• Vidéo « 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.

На других языках

[de] Georges Didi-Huberman

[fr] Georges Didi-Huberman

[ru] Диди-Юберман, Жорж