With each of his books, the philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman deepens the problem of images in the contemporary world. In gestures of air and stone, not only the main themes of this great thinker (such as the relationship between the image, the body and the word) are condensed, but also the essential characteristics of his method of work. Indeed, from psychoanalysis, contemporary art and literature, Didi-Huberman explores the inscription of the image in history.

The work of the psychologist Pierre Fédida, to whom this book is dedicated in a certain way, and of the contemporary artist Pascal Convert are called here to think differently about the so-called work of mourning, which is thought here more as a work of burial.