Being a Skull
Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture
What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to "touch 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.
Georges Didi-Huberman is a lecturer at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He has published over 20 books on art history and philosophy including Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration (1995) and Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of A Certain History of Art (2009). He is also the recipient of the 2015 Adorno Prize
Drew S. Burk has translated works by thinkers such as François Laruelle, Gilbert Simondon, and Fernand Deligny. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.
