Totentanz : Operationalizing Aby Warburg’s 'Pathosformeln'
- The object of this study is one of the most ambitious projects of twentieth-century art history: Aby Warburg's 'Atlas Mnemosyne', conceived in the summer of 1926 – when the first mention of a 'Bilderatlas', or "atlas of images", occurs in his journal – and truncated three years later, unfinished, by his sudden death in October 1929. Mnemosyne consisted in a series of large black panels, about 170x140 cm., on which were attached black-and-white photographs of paintings, sculptures, book pages, stamps, newspaper clippings, tarot cards, coins, and other types of images. Warburg kept changing the order of the panels and the position of the images until the very end, and three main versions of the Atlas have been recorded: one from 1928 (the "1-43 version", with 682 images); one from the early months of 1929, with 71 panels and 1050 images; and the one Warburg was working on at the time of his death, also known as the "1-79 version", with 63 panels and 971 images (which is the one we will examine). But Warburg was planning to have more panels – possibly many more – and there is no doubt that Mnemosyne is a dramatically unfinished and controversial object of study.
Author: | Leonardo Impett, Franco Moretti |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468352 |
URL: | https://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet16.pdf |
ISSN: | 2164-1757 |
Parent Title (English): | Stanford Literary Lab: Pamphlets ; 16 |
Series (Serial Number): | Pamphlets of the Stanford Literary Lab (16) |
Publisher: | Stanford Literary Lab |
Place of publication: | Stanford |
Document Type: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Date of first Publication: | 2017/11/01 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Creating Corporation: | Stanford Literary Lab |
Release Date: | 2018/07/13 |
Tag: | Warburg, Aby Moritz / Mnemosyne |
GND Keyword: | Pathosformel; Warburg, Aby Moritz; Mnemosyne; Muster <Struktur> |
HeBIS-PPN: | 434688398 |
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Stanford Literary Lab | |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |