Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images
- ISBN-10
- 1548999997
- ISBN-13
- 9781548999995
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-05-10
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Ernest Duffy
Description
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 the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Mnemosyne-Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully,.
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