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Ex-Voto: Image, Organ, Time
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Fall 2007
- pp. 7-16
- 10.1353/esp.2007.0057
- Article
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Considering their historical persistence and various forms from the Middle Ages to the present day, Didi-Huberman opposes the relegation of votive offerings to the status of the primitive, arguing instead that they operate a material resemblance, in which the symbolic and the iconic are irreducibly contaminated by indexical contact.