Confronting Images Simon Spence calm and stillness

calm and stillness

main points

often slow-moving

is a period between adolescence and adulthood properly characterized by identity exploration

as well as ways in which such elements may contribute to furthering justice or injustice

Confronting Images Simon Spence calm and stillnessWhen the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and Panofsky. According to Didi Huberman, visual representation has an underside in which seemingly intelligible forms lose their clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he goes on to