{"product_id":"9781945414091","title":"Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat would a sculpture look like that has as its task to \u003ci\u003etouch thought?\u003c\/i\u003e For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through a careful study of Penone’s work regarding a sculptural and haptic process of contact with place, thought, and artistic practice, Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey through various modes of thinking by way of being. Taking Penone’s artwork “Being the river” as a thematic starting point, Didi-Huberman sketches a sweeping view of how artists through the centuries have worked with conceptions of the skull, that is, the mind, and ruminates on where thought is indeed located. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Leonardo da Vinci to Albrecht Dürer, Didi-Huberman guides us to the work of Penone and from there, into the attempts of a sculptor whose works strives to \u003ci\u003etouch thought.\u003c\/i\u003e What we uncover is a sculptor whose work becomes a series of traces of the \u003ci\u003esite of thought\u003c\/i\u003e. Attempting to trace, by way of a series of \u003ci\u003efrottages, \u003c\/i\u003ereports, and developments, this imperceptible zone of contact. The result is a kind of fossil of the brain: the site of thought, namely, the site for getting lost and for disproving space. Sculpting at the same time what inhabits as well as what incorporates us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137570226416,"sku":"9781945414091","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781945414091_p0.jpg?v=1763768347","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781945414091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}