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Aby Warburg: Mnemosyne Atlas
The Original
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Edited by: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin und The Warburg Institute; Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil
Gestaltet von: Axel Heil, Christian Ertel, fluid editions
Institution: HKW, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Texte von: Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd M. Scherer, Bill Sherman, Claudia Wedepohl
English
March 2020, 184 Pages
, 83 Photos
hardcover with protective carton
464mm x
654mm
ISBN:978-3-7757-4693-9
| A picture book of the highest quality
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.
The art historian Roberto Ohrt (*1954) and the artist Axel Heil (*1965) have searched through the 400,000 individual pictures in the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute in London, looking for the images for the atlas. Their work is a comprehensive tribute to Aby Warburg's pictorial world.
The art historian Roberto Ohrt (*1954) and the artist Axel Heil (*1965) have searched through the 400,000 individual pictures in the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute in London, looking for the images for the atlas. Their work is a comprehensive tribute to Aby Warburg's pictorial world.
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