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The Power of Touch – The Modernity of an Anachronism: Georges Didi-Hubermanʼs Philosophy of Art

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013

Abstract

This article focuses on one of central topics of Didi-Hubermanʼs afterthought: the materiality of a work of art and of touch/track. In thismode of vision, the gaze of the object, however familiar, is experienced by the subject as other and prior, strange and heteronomous.

The moment of touch and the aura of presence it encapsulates were radically lost in this palimpsest of retracings.