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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 of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels Warburg carefully, intuitively arranged some thousand black-and-white phot
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- Author
- Christopher D. Johnson
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press; Cornell University Library; Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801477423
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Art, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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