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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 __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

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Author

Johnson, Christopher D.

Publisher

Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801464539

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Art, Arts