Abstract
As one of the most active art historians in France, Georges Didi-Huberman takes "event" as his theoretical basis, by which he makes possible the renewal of the critical tradition of Aby Warburg. Didi-Huberman is innovative because, on the one hand, he confirms Warburg's special epistemology that is situated within Walter Benjamin's horizon of event-truth implied in dialectic images, and, on the other, he legitimizes Benjamin's symptomatic reading of events by introducing Warburg's image-knowledge into iconographical studies. Didi-Hubermanian critical iconography has changed the look of contemporary French art history, disrupted the linear historical narrative of art in academic tradition, and ultimately opened up an iconographical path toward the archaeology of event-truth.
First Page
64
Last Page
72
Recommended Citation
Zhao, Wen. 2016. "Symptomatic Reading, Event, and Iconography: A Brief Discussion of Georges Didi-Huberman's Image-knowledge." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (6): pp.64-72. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss6/19
