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Under the Volcano. Warburg’s Legacy, explores the enduring influence of Aby Warburg’s ideas, likening his intellectual legacy to volcanic activity–continually shaping the landscape of cultural history. If Warburg “was a volcano”, this issue is structured around the metaphorical fissures and lava flows, and is divided into four sections: Unpublished, Rediscovery, Readings, Presentation.
Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places, the contributions cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between history and art history raises important aesthetic, ethical and political questions for the disciplines. The volume fosters a methodological awareness that enriches exchanges across these distinct fields of knowledge. This innovative book will be of interest to scholars in art history, cultural studies, history, visual culture and historiography.
Editoriale a cura di Maurizio Ghelardi e Daniela Sacco. Maurizio Ghelardi, Edgar Wind, Percy Schramm e il Warburg-Kreis. Sui concetti di Nachleben, renovatio, correctio. Ianick Takaes, The Demented, the Demonic, and the Drunkard. Edgar Wind’s Anarchic Art Theory. Adrian Rifkin, Mnemosyne, Itself. Elizabeth Sears, Warburg and Steinmann as Forschertypen. Lucrezia Not, La complessa vicenda editoriale di Saturno e la melanconia. Quattro lettere inedite del carteggio Einaudi-Warburg Institute. Lucas Burkart, “Le fantasticherie di alcuni confratelli amanti dell’arte...”. Sulla situazione della Biblioteca Warburg per la Scienza della Cultura tra il 1929 e il 1933, traduzione di Costanza Giannaccini. Roberto Ohrt e Axel Heil, Sul Nachleben di Mnemosyne.Bilderatlas Mnemosyne-The Original. Eine Konflikt Geschichte. Interview with Roberto Ohrt, on the exhibition in Berlin. Interview by Bianca Maria Fasiolo Neville Rowley, Atlas redux.
This book presents the first comprehensive study of the philosopher and art historian Edgar Wind's critique of modern art. The first student of Erwin Panofsky, and a close associate of Aby Warburg, Edgar Wind was unusual among the 'Warburgians' for his sustained interest in modern art, together with his support for contemporary artists. This culminated in his respected and influential book Art and Anarchy (1963), which seemed like a departure from his usual scholarly work on the iconography of Renaissance art. Based on extensive archival research and bringing to light previously unpublished lectures, Edgar Wind and Modern Art reveals the extent and seriousness of Wind's thinking about modern...
In this issue of Engramma: Giulia Zanon’s Zooming Mnemosyne deals with the use of details in Warburg’s Bilderatlas, Monica Centanni’s Collateral effects of the “visibile parlare” (Dante, Pg. X, v. 95) reconstructs the hypothesis of a visual model for the legend of Trajan’s Justice, according to Warburg intuition about it; this contribution is connected of the paper by Filippo Perfetti’s Dante, Botticelli, and Trajan. An Open Note where the author investigates how Botticelli could have come to know that the bas-relief of the Arch of Constantine liberatori urbis was related to an episode in Trajan's life”. The focus of this issue is then extended to Warburg's cultural environme...
Engramma 204 collects researches and findings of several Italian and European scholars who have dealt with aspects related to ancient, Medieval and Modern pilgrimage along the main three European Routes (Via Romea Francigena, Via Romea Strata, Via Romea Germanica), or along other routes to the Holy Land. The issue is divided into three sections. The first one is dedicated to the European project rurAllure by Martín López Nores, José Juan Pazos Arias, Susana Reboreda Morillo, Óscar Penín Romero, which focuses on the enhancement of minor sites along the pilgrimage routes of Europe, and it is accompanied by an overview on the development of promotional activities for some Italian cases sup...
Editorial paper, Monica Centanni, Anna Fressola, Elizabeth Thomson Ernst H. Gombrich, Geburtstagsatlas: An Index of materials published in Engramma, by Seminario Mnemosyne Ernst H. Gombrich, Geburtstagsatlas für Max M. Warburg (1937). First digital edition, by Seminario Mnemosyne Ernst H. Gombrich, To Mnemosyne: An Introduction to Geburtstagsatlas (1937), by Seminario Mnemosyne Zwischenraum/Denkraum. Terminological Oscillations in the Introductions to the Atlas by Aby Warburg (1929) and Ernst Gombrich (1937), Victoria Cirlot “L’esprit de Warburg lui-même sera en paix”. A survey of Edgar Wind’s quarrel. With the Warburg Institute. Appendix: The Warburgkreis correspondence, Ianick Takaes de Oliveira A Review of Ernst H. Gombrich, Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (London 1970). First digital edition, Edgar Wind A Laboratory of the Science of Culture. Review of A. Warburg, Gesammelte Schriften (1933). First digital edition, Johan Huizinga. Edition and translation by Monica Centanni, Sergio Polano and Elizabeth Thomson Autobiography of a Warburgian Artist. Review of: Ronald B. Kitaj Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter (2017), Matias J. Nativo, Alessia Prati
This Bibliography is a selected compilation of the main editions of Aby M. Warburg’s works, essays and critical materials. It is the result of a stratified work started in 2004, which had involved several members of the Seminario Mnemosyne. We invite scholars and readers to send suggestions for the inclusion of further bibliographic entries to the Editorial board of Engramma.
This issue of Engramma is intended as an update of the overview of studies dedicated to Warburg in the world: an important work of reconnaissance inaugurated with Engramma 165, Warburgian Studies. The issue brings together contributions from different scholars, sharing a common vision of Warburg and his thought. A Companion to Warburgian Studies is divided into three parts: I. Essays; II. Overviews; III. Presentations and Reviews.
Aby Warburg, the founder of a new Science of Culture, the scholar who gave back word to the image; a “militant” intellectual (so wrote Gertrud Bing), for whom no distinction exists between life and thought; pioneer of new research methods, inventing ‘machines’ of knowledge; architect of spaces designed as arenas of thought. The Library for the Science of Culture (transferred from Hamburg to London in 1933) and the Mnemosyne Atlas are the achievements to which the most substantial part of his heritage is linked. The ten essays here collected for the first time, all stemming from the Italian cultural milieu, trace with clarity Warburg’s “living thought”. Giorgio Pasquali, Mario P...