Aby M. Warburg (18661929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg's 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in the first complete English translation, offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest. This edition includes thirty-nine photographs, many of them originally presented as slides with the speech, and a rich interpretive essay by the translator. The presentation grew out of Warburg's 1895 encounter with the Hopi Indians, an experience he claimed generated his theory of the Renaissance. In this powerfully written piece, Warburg investigates the relationships among ethnography, iconography, and cultural studies to develop a multicultural history of modernity.
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Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book is a brilliant portrayal of the pueblo and the translation is so seamless one would think it was written in English! This is definitely one of the top 5 of the 90's
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If I am to show you images, most of which I photographed myself, from a journey undertaken some twenty-seven years in the past, and to accompany them with words, then it behooves me to preface my attempt with an explanation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, San Ildefonso, New York, Native American, Uncle Sam, Warburg Institute, Frank Hamilton Cushing, American Indian, Cleo Jurino, Warburg's American New!
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If I am to show you images, most of which I photographed myself, from a journey undertaken some twenty-seven years in the past, and to accompany them with words, then it behooves me to preface my attempt with an explanation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pueblo Indians, New Mexico, San Ildefonso, New York, Native American, Uncle Sam, Warburg Institute, Frank Hamilton Cushing, American Indian, Cleo Jurino, Warburg's American New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Ghost Dance (Native American Series) by James Mooney on page 61, page 62, and page 110
- Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (Mythos Books) by Jane Ellen Harrison on page 55, and page 114
- Greek Religion: Belief and Experience by Thomas Harrison on page 55, and page 114
- Henrik Ibsen (World Dramatists) by H. G. Meyer on page 111
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1: 1927-1930 by Walter Benjamin on page 114
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- Chaos and Cosmos: On the Image in Aesthetics and Art History by Karen Lang on page 90, page 93, and Back Matter
- Mythistory: The Making of a Modern Historiography by Joseph Mali on page 134, and Back Matter
- Art History as Cultural History: Warburg's Projects (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Richard Woodfield in Front Matter, and page 140
- The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Oxford History of Art) by Donald Preziosi on page 178, and page 220
- Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems (Theatre and Performance Theory) by Nicholas Ridout in Back Matter
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