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On a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Georges Didi-Huberman tears three pieces of bark from birch trees on the edge of the site. Looking at these pieces after his return home, he sees them as letters, a flood, a path, time, memory, flesh. The bark serves as a springboard to Didi-Huberman's meditations on his visit, recorded in this spare, poetic, and powerful book. Bark is a personal account, drawing not on the theoretical apparatus of scholarship but on Didi-Huberman's own history, memory, and knowledge. The text proceeds as a series of reflections, accompanied by Didi-Huberman's photographs of the visit. The photographs are not meant to be art - Didi-Huberman confesses that he "photographed practically everything without looking" - but approach it nevertheless.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Bark
• Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780262036849
• ISBN: 9780262036849
• ID: 16056123
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 256 g
• Dimensions: 183 × 138 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. October 2017

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