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Antiquity Unleashed - Aby Warburg, Durer and Mantegna (Paperback, New)
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Antiquity Unleashed - Aby Warburg, Durer and Mantegna (Paperback, New)
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Discovery Miles 3 510
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The Hamburg banker's son Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was one of the
most influential art historians and cultural theorists of the 20th
century. His life's work was devoted to tracing antique formulas of
representation in the depiction of human passions in Renaissance
art. For this epoch-spanning relationship, he developed the term
'pathos formula' (Pathosformel). In a lecture given in 1905 in the
Konzerthaus in Hamburg, focusing on the young Albrecht Durer's
Death of Orpheus, Warburg outlined his thoughts in front of the
original drawing, which he had borrowed from the rich holdings of
the Kunsthalle in order to better illustrate his idea. This
drawing, pivotal in the young artist's development as an ambitious
response to classical antiquity, was displayed during the lecture
alongside a group of engravings and woodcuts which included not
only some of Durer's own seminal later prints, such as Melencolia
I, but also engravings by Andrea Mantegna which Durer copied in
1494, the same year he drew the Death of Orpheus. Warburg's 'pop-up
exhibition' of eleven works has here been reconstructed and
analyzed, using his fascinating lecture notes, sketches and slide
lists. First developed by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2011,
subsequently on view in Cologne in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and
now at The Courtauld Gallery, each institution has interpreted the
material slightly differently, while retaining the core Warburg
group. Aby Warburg aimed at unlocking the meaning of an art work by
excavating its roots in its cultural context. By restaging his
legendary display of 1905 with Durer's Death of Orpheus at its
heart, the exhibition and accompanying book present some of the
most skillful and ambitious works on paper ever produced and also
seek to introduce into Warburg's rich intellectual universe to a
broader public, hoping thereby to offer both sheer enjoyment and
food for thought.
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