The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity

by Aby Warburg

Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation, and in particular he contemplated the meaning of the re-use of ancient motifs. His scholarship--published in German in 1932 in two volumes encompassing all of his published essays along with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892365374
• ISBN13: 9780892365371
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 868 Pages
• Weight: 4.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 7.3" x 10.3"