“The Mnemosyne Atlas”: non finito in the history of art
Keywords:
Aby Warburg, “Mnemosyne Atlas”, Pathosformel, iconology, image and text, academic discourse, art historyAbstract
“The Mnemosyne Atlas” is Aby Warburg’s last project. This collection of Antiquity’s Pathosformel was designed to create Denkraum – a zone for reasoning, a space for thought one requires when confronting the magic world of images. Working mainly with visual evidence, Warburg transcends the limits of academic textual discourse. This unfinished project is valuable precisely because of its non finito – the essential nature of this art history masterpiece as an open work.
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2012-10-11
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Western Art of the 19th-20th Centuries and Theory of Art
How to Cite
Toropygina, M. Y. (2012). “The Mnemosyne Atlas”: non finito in the history of art. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art, 2, 314–320. https://publ.actual-art.org/aptha/article/view/10432