The Surviving Image: Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms: Aby Warburg's History of Art

The Surviving Image, originally published in French in 2002, is the result of Georges Didi—Huberman’s extensive research into the life and work of foundational art historian Aby Warburg. Warburg envisioned an art history that engaged with anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy in order to understand the “life” of images. Drawing on a wide range of Warburg’s unpublished letters and diaries, Didi—Huberman demonstrates unequivocally the complexity and importance of Warburg’s ideas and th...