Knowledge through montage: Georges Didi-Huberman's montage of image and time

Abstract

This paper discusses the prospect of montage in the work of the French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman. His solid and great work insists that the image is a true problem and stresses the need of the researcher’s knowledge when looking at it. For it, he believes that we must put them into relationships, put them next to the other, because images do not speak alone. This knowledge by montage insisted by Didi-Huberman has a solid theoretical basis. In this short paper one tried to discuss the theoretical perspectives of the didi-hubermanian montage by the writings and theories of montage of three major intellectuals: Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Sergei Eisenstein. For all montage and dis-montage are of particular importance in the conception of both image and time.