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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149535003321

Autore

Didi-Huberman Georges

Titolo

Being a Skull [[electronic resource] ] : Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture / / Georges Didi-Huberman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : Univocal, , [2016]

©[2016]

ISBN

1-945414-11-1

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Univocal

Disciplina

700.4561

Soggetti

Skull in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Being a box. Paul Richer and the cranial box -- Being an onion. Leonardo da Vinci and the depth of the skull -- Being a snail. Albrecht Durer and the "transfer" of human heads -- E^tre al^tre. "Psyche is extended and knows nothing" -- Being a river. Essere fiume : Penone, sculptor of altre -- Being a dig. Sculpture as material anamnesis : to do a dig -- Being a fossil. A sculpture whose task will be to touch thought -- Being a leaf. Sculpture works with traces rather than with objects -- Being a site. A site for getting lost, a site for disproving space and turning it upside down.

Sommario/riassunto

What would a sculpture look like that has as its task totouch thought?For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through a careful study of Penone's work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey through various modes of thinking by way of being. Taking Penone's artwork "Being the river" as a thematic starting point, Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists through the centuries have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. From Leonardo da Vinci to Albrecht Dürer, Didi-Huberman guides us to the work of Penone and from there, into the attempts of a sculptor whose works strives totouch thought.What we uncover is a sculptor whose work



becomes a series of traces of thesite of thought. Attempting to trace, by way of a series offrottages,reports, and developments, this imperceptible zone of contact. The result is a kind of fossil of the brain: the site of thought, namely, the site for getting lost and for disproving space. Sculpting at the same time what inhabits as well as what incorporates us.