The Eye of History: When Images Take Positions

by Georges Didi-Huberman

An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht's "photoepigrams."

From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (Arbeitsjournal) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, War Primer, with war photographs clipped from magazines and adding his own epigrammatic commentary. In this book, Georges Didi-Huberman explores the interaction of politics and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037874
• ISBN13: 9780262037877
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher