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Memory, metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of images /

"The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Christopher D., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Colección:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Atlas gazed : Mnemosyne : its origins, motives, and scope
  • Ad oculos : ways of seeing, reading, and collecting
  • Metaphor lost and found in Mnemosyne
  • Translating the symbol : Warburg and Cassirer
  • Metaphorologies : Nietzsche, Blumenberg, and Hegel
  • Exemplary figures and diagrammatic thought
  • Synderesis : the "Bruno-Reise."