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Aby Warburg and Anti-semitism - Political Perspectives on Images and Culture (Hardcover)
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Aby Warburg and Anti-semitism - Political Perspectives on Images and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
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This is a landmark study on Aby Warburg's life and work, translated
into English.In ""Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism"", Charlotte
Schoell-Glass provides an unprecedented look at the life and
writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of
Warburg's little-known political views. Schoell-Glass argues
provocatively based on archival research that Warburg's work and
teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in
Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and
university scholarship. Translated into English for the first time,
""Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism"" sheds much needed light on
Warburg's views on Judaism and the politics of his time.Aby
Warburg, scion of a well-known Jewish banking family in Hamburg,
sacrificed his birthright to pursue a career as a private scholar.
As an independent art historian, he devoted himself almost
exclusively to reinterpreting the revival of antiquity within the
Renaissance, urging other art historians to approach their work as
a brand of the larger study of image making and philosophy. In this
study, Schoell-Glass examines Warburg's most influential essays on
Durer, Rembrandt, and the Sassetti Chapel and his most innovative
concepts - the accessories of motion, the pathos formula, and the
afterlife of antiquity - to illustrate how Warburg persistently
showed a deep concern over a disappointing and unstable outside
world within his own work. Schoell-Glass shows how Warburg attempts
to make a response to anti-Semitism the only way he knew how,
despite his awareness of the diminishing societal relevance of that
response.From this study of Warburg, Schoell-Glass produces a
multilayered case study of the encounter between twentieth-century
politics and scholarship. Art historians, German historians, and
scholars of Jewish studies and cultural studies will be grateful
for this volume.
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