Aby Warburg

Bilderatlas MNEMOSYNE: Commentary Volume

Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil

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German

Hatje Cantz
31 December 2024

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Collage & photomontage; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

From 1925 until his death in 1929 the Hamburg-based art and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, a volume of plates that has, in the meanwhile, taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual reference system that was far ahead of its time. Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil have now undertaken the task of finding all of the individual pictures from the atlas and displaying these reproductions of artworks from the Middle East, European antiquity, and the Renaissance in the same way that Warburg himself showed them, on panels hung with black fabric.

This folio volume and the exhibition in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin succeed in restoring Warburg's vanished legacy-something that researchers have long considered impossible.

By: Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 630mm, Width: 430mm,
ISBN: 9783775746953
ISBN 10: 3775746951
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 31 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

German art historian Roberto Ohrt and German artist Axel Heil searched through the 400,000 individual pictures in the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute in London, to reconstruct Aby Warburg's modernist epic of visual thinking: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Bill Sherman is the Director of the Warburg Institute in London.

Reviews for Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas MNEMOSYNE: Commentary Volume

"There is pain and suffering in these pictures, but also a sense of pure possibility, as though the space between images, or between panels, contained only wind, or the beating of wings.--Brian Dillon ""Frieze"""