Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images / / Christopher D. Johnson.
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...
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Johnson, Christopher D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images / Christopher D. Johnson. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (304 p.) : 27 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Atlas Gazed: Mnemosyne–Its Origins, Motives, and Scope -- 2. Ad oculos : Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Collecting -- 3. Metaphor Lost and Found in Mnemosyne -- 4. Translating the Symbol: Warburg and Cassirer -- 5. Metaphorologies: Nietzsche, Blumenberg, and Hegel -- 6. Exemplary Figures and Diagrammatic Thought -- 7. Synderesis : The “Bruno-Reise” -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white photographs of classical and Renaissance art objects, as well as of astrological and astronomical images ranging from ancient Babylon to Weimar Germany. Here and there, he also included maps, manuscript pages, and contemporary images taken from newspapers. Trying through these constellations of images to make visible the many polarities that fueled antiquity's afterlife, Warburg envisioned the Mnemosyne-Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought.While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the Mnemosyne-Atlas complicates any linear narrative of its themes and contents, Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels. By drawing on Warburg's published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg's cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West's cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word and image in the Mnemosyne-Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Mnemosyne-Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the Mnemosyne-Atlas is not simply the culmination of Warburg’s lifelong study of Renaissance culture but the ultimate expression of his now literal, now metaphoric search for syncretic solutions to the urgent problems posed by the history of art and culture. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Art criticism History 20th century Germany. Art criticism Germany History 20th century. Art, Classical Influence. Art, Renaissance Influence. Memory in art. Metaphor in art. Art History. Cultural Studies. GERMAN STUDIES. ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). bisacsh art history, cultural theory, classical art, renaissance art, weimar germany, art and culture. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464065 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801464065 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801464065/original |
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