Title & Author:

Art history as cultural history : Warburg's projects / edited by Richard Woodfield.

Publication:

Amsterdam : G+B Arts International ; Abingdon : Marston, 2000.

Description:

304 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Series:

Critical voices in art, theory and culture

Notes:
Includes lecture by Aby Warburg.
Includes bibliographical references.
The entry of the idealizing classical style in the painting of early Renaissance / Aby Warburg -- Warburg centenary lecture / Ernst H. Gombrich -- The nineteenth century notion of a pagan revival / Ernst H. Gombrich -- Aby Warburg and the cultural historian Karl Lamprecht / Kathryn Brush -- Making a reception for Warburg : Fritz Saxl and Warburg's book Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten / Dorothea McEwan -- Mimesis and allegory : on Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin / Matthew Rampley -- Urania redux : a view of Aby Warburg's writings on astrology and art / Kristen Lippincott -- "Serious issues" : the last plates of Warburg's picture atlas Mnemosyne / Charlotte Schoell-Glass -- Aby Warburg and the Florentine Intermedi of 1859 : extending the boundaries of art history / Peg Katritzky -- Warburg's "method" / Richard Woodfield.

Summary:

This study focuses on Aby Warburg, whose collection is housed in the University of London's Warburg Institute. The collection includes a translation of one of Warburg's Gombrich lectures and essays on Warburg's main pursuits.

ISBN:

9057010232
9789057010231
9057010038 (pbk.)
9789057010033 (pbk.)

Subject:

Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929.
German Art historians.
Art history.
Symbolism (artistic concept)

Form/genre:

Lectures.

Added entries:

Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929.
Woodfield, Richard.
Critical voices in art, theory and culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215356
Call No.: N7480.8.W253 A7 2000
Status: Available