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Confronting Images Simon Spence were rallying cries for theWhen the French edition of Confronting Images appeared in 1990, it won immediate acclaim because of its far reaching arguments about the structure of images and the histories ascribed to them by scholars and critics working in the tradition of Vasari and Panofsky. According to Didi Huberman, visual representation has an underside in which seemingly intelligible forms lose their clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he goes on to