Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg

by Mark A. Russell

Aby Warburg (1866-1929), founder of the Warburg Institute, was one of the most influential cultural historians of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period 1896-1918, this is the first in-depth, book-length study of his response to German political, social and cultural modernism. It analyses Warburg's response to the effects of these phenomena through a study of his involvement with the creation of some of the most important public artworks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845453697
• ISBN13: 9781845453695
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"