Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Christopher D., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Warburg, Aby Moritz > 1866-1929 > Mnemosyne
Warburg, Aby, > 1866-1929. > Mnemosyne.
Mnemosyne (Warburg, Aby)
Kunstwissenschaft
Erinnerung
Rezeption
Antike
Metaphor in art.
Memory in art.
Art, Renaissance > Influence.
Art criticism.
Art, Classical > Influence.
ART > History > General.
ART > European.
Art de la Renaissance > Influence.
Art antique > Influence.
Critique d'art > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Art criticism > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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