Aby Warburg
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Tanto las crónicas de la conquista, pasando por los relatos de los exploradores de la colonia y temprana república, como los desplazamientos de las violencias contemporáneas, muestran una relación importante entre violencia y territorio,... more
Autobiographical text by Aby Warburg; translation by Christopher Johnson, Introduction by Claudia Wedepohl
La relación de la alta cultura brasileña con sus bases populares es de larga data y el modernismo brasileño de los años veinte y treinta presenta un antecedente ineludible. El caso de Bahía –debido a la fuerte presencia de la cultura... more
Presented at "Pictures of War: The Still image in Conflict since 1945" at Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, UK) on 24 May 2018. The art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) famously proposed a theory of affective gestures,... more
Editorial paper of Engramma n. 153 (February 2018). Edited by Monica Centanni, Anna Fressola, Elizabeth Thomson.
Editorial paper Engramma no. 151. English version.
La fortuna recente del progetto Mnemosyne di Aby Warburg. Aspetti metodologici e potenzialità applicative dello strumento-Bilderatlas
The Introduction to my book, "The Theatre of Death - the Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor", published by Palgrave Macmillan in their Performance Philosophy series.
Este ensaio crítico pretende compartilhar impressões, reflexões e inquietações advindas do primeiro contato, ou primeiras leituras e outras conversas e apreciações sobre os estudos do historiador Aby Warburg em meados de maio de 2013 na... more
A visual constellation in the style of Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. It can be seen as a continuation of Aby Warburg's famous texts on North American Indians and snake rituals. The plate is based on the visual examples discussed in a... more
Actuellement à la Monnaie de Paris, l’exposition À pied d’œuvres(s) se propose de sonder le passage de la verticalité à l’horizontalité de la sculpture et son rapport immédiat au sol. Bien que pour certaines œuvres présentées cette... more
The book is still available on order from the publisher : https://www.aspeditions.be/en/book/pneumatology/15244 How do wind and breath challenge the traditional conception of an image as something seen and read? The book that you... more
Los temas relacionados con la memoria y la historia ocupan un espacio creciente en las teorías culturales. En este trabajo se explora con carácter prospectivo el potencial de las ideas de Aby Warburg para resituar algunos aspectos del... more
Ernst Robert Curtius, né en 1886 en Alsace, est renommé comme l’auteur de l’idée de littérature européenne. Il était critique littéraire dans les années 1920. De plus, il faisait des recherches sur la continuité de la rhétorique... more
This thesis offers an adjunct to recent theories of the haptic contingent upon proximity by considering how embodied engagement might take place at a distance. Developing a broad definition of gesture as a motion away from the (carnal or... more
The article investigates the discourse of contemporary visual culture studies informed by the paradigmatic shift in the field of humanities, known as pictorial turn. Drawing upon the concepts outlined by William J. Mitchell and Mieke Bal,... more
On Joan Jonas's "The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things" (2005-6).
A study in extremes, panel 45, builds on the sequence of panels 41, 41a, 42, 43, & 44. But it does so to signal a perilous “loss” of metaphoric distance. Here frescos by Ghirlandaio emblemize the "afterlife" of classical "expressive... more
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Esej analizuje powinowactwa koncepcji pamięci stworzonych przez Richarda Semona i Aby Warburga oraz problematyzuje relację pomiędzy dwoma wyłaniającymi się równolegle dziedzinami wiedzy - historią sztuki i psychologią.
Aby Warburg has traditionally assumed a marginal position in the discipline of art history, long overshadowed by his predecessor Erwin Panofsky. Over the past two decades, however, Warburg’s intellectual legacy has undergone a significant... more
Discourse on the issue of “simulation” or “diving” among soccer’s public exploded in the 1990s and has remained a perennial talking point. What little academic work does exist on the phenomenon, such as that produced by Paul H. Morris... more
Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been a core text in the study of art and art history since its publication. This paper is part of a series of critical and unique academic explorations of seminal works in the humanities... more
This paper reveals how both contemporary and prior views of the nature of the pictorial arts since early modernism have been underpinned by the classical concept of mimesis, and as a result has brought with it a pre-occupation with both... more
La historieta constituye una parcela de los medios que utilizan la secuen-cia de imágenes estáticas para comunicar y narrar. Gracias al concepto «configuración visual secuencial», que constituye el punto de partida de este libro, es... more
After WWI, Fritz Saxl assembled nearly 20 educational exhibitions for the department of national education in Vienna. Today, little is known about these exhibitions since almost all the related materials are lost. Only Saxl's letters as... more
This Note on Aby Warburg’s Grundlegende Bruchstücke zu einer pragmatischen Ausdrucks- kunde, published for the first time in 2011, seeks to highlight the philosophical con- tent of Warburg’s iconology in his earlier thinking. In... more
Este artigo apresenta dois conceitos fundamentais da teoria iconologica desenvolvida por Aby Warburg, a Nachleben e a Pathosformeln , com o intuito de compreender como se da a sobrevivencia das formas na historia da arte, como... more
Die Bildgeschichte des Begriffs Terrorismus wird im 21. Jahrhundert gerne in Hyperimages dargestellt. Über die Assemblage diverser Kontexte entstehen so Bildensembles, die den Eindruck vermitteln, als handle es sich bei Terrorismus um... more
An excerpt from Sergei M. Eisenstein's memoirs describing a night visit to the museum of Chichén Itzá in Mexico is set forth as a real life example reflecting, both from a visual and theoretical perspective, the architecture of... more
METADATA. HOW WE RELATE TO IMAGES Lethaby Gallery 10 Jan—3 Feb 2018 An exhibition organised by the International Research Group “Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology” in collaboration with Central Saint... more
This book takes its start from a series of attempts to use Caravaggio’s works for contemporary humanitarian communications. How did his "Sleeping Cupid" (1608) end up on the island of Lampedusa, at the heart of the Mediterranean... more
This edition of Aby Warburg's early theoretical manuscripts provides a dense, highly biograpic documentation of his unique way of thinking. The notes, schematic drawings, and diagrams of the young scholar offer unique insight into his... more