The Eye of History av Georges (Directeur d'etudes Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Didi-Huberman

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<b>An exploration of the interaction of aesthetics and politics in Bertolt Brecht''s “photoepigrams.”</b><p>From 1938 to 1955, Bertolt Brecht created montages of images and text, filling his working journal (<i>Arbeitsjournal</i>) and his idiosyncratic atlas of images, <i>War Primer,</i> with war photographs clipped from magazines and adding his own epigrammatic commentary. In this book, Georges Didi-Huberman explores the interaction of politics and aesthetics in these creations, explaining how they became the means for Brecht, a wandering poet in exile, to “take a position” about the Nazi war in Europe. Illustrated with pages from the <i>Arbeitsjournal</i> and <i>War Primer</i> and contextual images including Raoul Hausmann''s poem-posters and Walter Benjamin''s drawings, <i>The Eye of History</i> offers a new view of important but little-known works by Brecht.</p><p>Didi-Huberman shows that Brecht took positions without taking sides; he used these montages to