Tangled Paths
eBook - ePub

Tangled Paths

A Life of Aby Warburg

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tangled Paths

A Life of Aby Warburg

About this book

An intimate biography of an eminent historian of art and culture, exploring his life both within and away from the academy. Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting Warburg's many projects and identities—groundbreaking historian, public intellectual, ethnographer, shrewd academic administrator, and founder of a library—the book explores not only the vagaries of an academic career but also the personal demons of a man who relentlessly sought to live up to his own expectations. In this biography—the first in English in over fifty years—Hans C. Hönes presents an evocative and richly detailed portrait of Warburg's personality and career, and of his attempts to make sense of the tangled paths of his life.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. 1 A Life in Retrospect
  7. 2 Becoming an Art Historian
  8. 3 Travels in the World of Symbols
  9. 4 Voices from the Past
  10. 5 Itineraries: Warburg’s Destiny
  11. 6 Hamburg: The Making of a Public–Private Scholar
  12. 7 Fighting Border–Guard Mentality
  13. 8 In Turmoil: Reassembling Life
  14. 9 The Tower
  15. 10 ‘Mnemosyne’: Warburg’s Curtain Call
  16. 11 Alpha and Omega
  17. REFERENCES
  18. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  20. PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  21. INDEX