Imprint and image : Phenomenon of imprint as a challenge to deepening reflection on the arts

Abstract

The article concerns the phenomenology of imprint as introduced by Didi-Huberman in one of his last books, La Ressemblance par contact. Archeologie, anachronisme et modernite (2008).

I show how this point of view successfully questions some too-narrow definitions of art based on Vasari's humanism. At the same time I show the limits of this approach.

Keywords

• artwork
• imprint
• image
• phenomenology