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

Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images / / Christopher D. Johnson.

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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 the time...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Johnson, Christopher D.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 27 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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