Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

by Christopher D. Johnson

The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Mnemosyne-Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with black cloth. On these panels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477425
• ISBN13: 9780801477423
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher