Art in the present / Hubert Damisch

Through his writings and teaching, Hubert Damisch has played a crucial role in redefining the scope of art history since the Seventies by integrating it into the Structuralist movement. In his view, art works develop models of intelligibility through their own means. Without ever losing their historical precision, his analyses encompass painting, drawing, architecture, photography and film alike, and open out to the closely-related fields of philosophy, the theory of sciences, linguistics and psychoanalysis