Aby Warburg And The Image In Motion Philippealain Michaud by Philippe-alain Michaud 9781890951399, 1890951390 instant download after payment.

Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is best known as the originator of the
discipline of iconology and as the founder of the institute that bears
his name. His followers included such celebrated art historians of the
twentieth century as Erwin Panofsky, Edgar Wind, and Fritz Saxl. But his
heirs developed, for the most part, a domesticated iconology based on
the interpretation of symbolic material. As Phillippe-Alain Michaud
shows in this important book, Warburg's own project was remote from any
positivist or neo-Kantian ambitions. Nourished on the work of Nietzsche
and Burckhardt, Warburg fashioned a "critical iconology" to reveal the
irrationality of the image in Western culture. Opposing the grand
teleological narratives of art inaugurated by Vasari, Warburg's method
operated through historical anachronisms and discontinuities. Using
"montage-collision" to create textless collections of images, he brought
together pagan artifacts and masterpieces of Florentine Renaissance
art, ancient Near East astrology and the Lutheran Reformation, Mannerist
festivals and the sacred dances of Native Americans. Michaud insists
that for Warburg, the practice of art history was the discovery within
the art work itself of fracture, contradictions, tensions, and the
energies of magic, empathy, totemism, and animism. Challenging normative
accounts of Western European classicism, Warburg located the real
sources of the Renaissance in the Dionysian spirit, in the expression of
movement and dance, in the experience of trance personified in the
frenzied nymph or ecstatic maenad.
Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion
is not only a book about Warburg but a book written with him; Michaud
uses Warburg's intuitions and discoveries to analyze other categories of
imagery, including the daguerreotype, the chronophotography of
Etienne-Jules Marey, early cinema, and the dances of Loie Fuller. It
will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the origins of
modern art history and the visual culture of modernity.