cam a22 4 4500 551376309 CHVBK 20201014103806.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 111219s2012 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 2011052436 978-0-8014-7742-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) (SERSOL)ssj0000713945 (WaSeSS)ssj0000713945 NIC/DLC NIC DLC WaSeSS N7483.W36 J64 2012 709.2 23 Johnson Christopher D. 1964- Memory, metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of images [Elektronische Daten] Christopher D. Johnson Ithaca, N.Y Cornell University Press Cornell University Library 2012 1 online resource (xiii, 286 p.) ill Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought Includes bibliographical references and index. Atlas gazed : Mnemosyne : its origins, motives, and scope -- Ad oculos : ways of seeing, reading, and collecting -- Metaphor lost and found in Mnemosyne -- Translating the symbol : Warburg and Cassirer -- Metaphorologies : Nietzsche, Blumenberg, and Hegel -- Exemplary figures and diagrammatic thought -- Synderesis : the "Bruno-Reise". Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. "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 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 Atlas as a vital form of metaphoric thought. While the nondiscursive, frequently digressive character of the 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 By drawing on Warburg's published and unpublished writings and by attending to Warburg's cardinal idea that "pathos formulas" structure the West's cultural memory, Johnson maps numerous tensions between word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 Atlas. In addition to examining the work itself, he considers the literary, philosophical, and intellectual-historical implications of the Atlas. As Johnson demonstrates, the 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."--Publisher's Web site. Warburg, Aby 1866-1929 Mnemosyne Art criticism Germany History 20th century Art, Classical Influence Art, Renaissance Influence Metaphor in art Memory in art https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801464065 Uni Basel: Volltext https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibern/detail.action?docID=3138359 Uni Bern: Volltext https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801464065 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 De Gruyter PDA SSH eBooks De Gruyter PDA STM eBooks E-Books von 360MarcUpdates Ebook Central All Subscribed Titles PDA Package: All eBook Content, incl. OWV/AV PDA5EBK IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB 100 1- Johnson Christopher D. 1964- IDSBB 490 1- Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought IDSBB 856 40 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801464065 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unibern/detail.action?docID=3138359 Uni Bern: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801464065 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 264028147