Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys th

According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, h

Human subjects are both formed by historical inheritances and capable of active criticism. Insisting on this fact, Kant and Benjamin each develop powerful, syst