Art History as Cultural History

Warburg's Projects

Richard Woodfield

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9789057010231
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134392377
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a psychology of symbolism, and explores the Nachleben of classical antiquity in its manifold cultural legacy. This collection of essays offers the first translation of one of Warburg's key essays, the Gombrich lecture, described by Carlo Ginzburg as 'the richest and most penetrating interpretation of Warburg' and original essays on Warburg's astrology, his Mnemosyne project and his favourite topic of festivals. Richard Woodfield is Research Professor in the Faculty of Art and Design at the Nottingham Trent University, England. He has edited E.H Gombrich's Reflections on the History of Art (1987), Gombrich on Art and Psychology (1996), The Essential Gombrich (1996), and a volume on Riegl in the Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture series. He is also the General Editor of a new series of books for G+B Arts International, Aesthetics and the Arts. Edited by Richard Woodfield, Research Professor in the Faculty of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction to the Series
• The Entry of the Idealizing Classical Style in the Painting of Early Renaissance
• Warburg Centenary Lecture
• The Nineteenth Century Notion of a Pagan Revival
• Aby Warburg and the Cultural Historian Karl Lamprecht
• Making a Reception for Warburg: Fritz Saxl and Warburg’s Book Heidnisch-antike Weissagung in Wort und Bild zu Luthers Zeiten
• Mimesis and Allegory: On Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin
• Urania redux: A View of Aby Warburg’s Writings on Astrology and Art
• “Serious Issues”: The Last Plates of Warburg’s Picture Atlas Mnemosyne
• Aby Warburg and the Florentine Intermedi of 1859: Extending the Boundaries of Art History
• Warburg’s “Method”