Aby Warburg in America: An Album When Aby Warburg left for the
United States in September 1895, it was not foreseeable that his
search for the symbolic foundations of art would become one of the
most fascinating events in the history of his field. Warburg’s
American journey lasted only months, and his stay in the Pueblo
communities only a few weeks, but in 1923 he presented his findings
in the groundbreaking lecture on the “Snake Ritual”. Using
selected photographs, ethnologic drawings, and numerous documents,
this story and picture book details a journey of discovery. It
traverses a vast continent of research, showing Warburg’s diverse
interlocutors — from chiefs to missionaries — and especially
his records of dances, ritual objects, and artworks full of
symbolic representations. The documents are evidence of the
emerging shift in Warburg’s scholarly thinking, which would
eventually lead to the cross-border cultural comparative
methodology for which he is now held in worldwide esteem.
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