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Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion

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ISBN-10: 1890951404

ISBN-13: 9781890951405

Edition: 2004

Authors: Philippe-Alain Michaud, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sophie Hawkes

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Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears his name. His followers included such celebrated art historians of the twentieth century as Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and Fritz Saxl. But his heirs developed, for the most part, a domesticated iconology based on the interpretation of symbolic material. As Phillippe-Alain Michaud shows in this important book, Warburg's own project was remote from any positivist or neo-Kantian ambitions. Nourished on the work of Nietzsche and Burckhardt, Warburg fashioned a "critical iconology" to reveal the irrationality of the image in Western culture. Opposing the grand…    
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Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 3/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Philippe-Alain Michaud is the Film Curator at the Mus�e national d'art moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou and the author of Le Peuple des images.

Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the �cole des hautes �tudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Images in Spite of All, published by the University of Chicago Press.

Foreword: Knowledge: Movement (The Man Who Spoke to Butterflies)
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction
New York: The Movie Set
Florence I: Bodies in Motion
Florence II: The Painted Space
Florence III: The Theatrical Stage
Among the Hopi
Hamburg: The Art History Scene
Zwischenreich: Mnemosyne, or Expressivity Without a Subject
Crossing the Frontiers: Mnemosyne Between Art History and Cinema
Memories of a Journey Through the Pueblo Region
On Planned American Visit (1927)
Notes
Index