Aby Warburg : Bilderatlas Mnemosyne : the original / Roberto Ohrt amd Axel Heil ; in cooperation with the Warburg Institute and Haus der Kulturen der Welt ; texts, Axel Heil [and four others].
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, April 2 - June 22, 2020. Includes bibliographical references (page 180) and index.
Contents:
Bilderatlas Mnemosyne -- Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil -- Concordance. Bilderatlas in the 21st century / Bernd Scherer -- The Mnemosyne and its afterlife / Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil -- The making of Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne / Claudia Wedepohl -- Fragment of an introduction to the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne / Aby Warburg ; with an editorial note by Claudia Wedepohl -- On the recovery of the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne and the actual state of the captions / Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil -- Key to captions -- Bilderatlas Mnemosyne -- Preliminary versions and unnumbered panels -- Concordance.
Summary:
From 1925 until his death in 1929 the Hamburg-based art and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, a volume of plates that has, in the meanwhile, taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual reference system that was far ahead of its time. In cooperation with the Warburg Institute, Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil have now undertaken the task of finding all of the individual pictures from the atlas and displaying these reproductions of artworks from the Middle East, European antiquity, and the Renaissance in the same way that Warburg himself showed them, on panels hung with black fabric. This folio volume and the exhibition in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin succeed in restoring Warburg's vanished legacy something that researchers have long considered impossible. -- ABY WARBURG (1866-1929), scion of a Hamburg banking family, completed his doctorate in 1892 on the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. As a result, he comprehensively studied the interplay of myths, images and rites from different cultural contexts. This lead him to his main subject matter: the afterlife of antiquity in the Renaissance. With his attempt to break down the rigid boundaries of art history, Warburg is regarded as one of the fathers of modern pictorial science. -- Exhibition: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (02.04. - 22.06.2020).
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