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Wstęp do politycznej analizy Atlasu Mnemosyne Aby’ego Warburga
Introduction to a Political Analysis of the Mnemosyne Atlas by Aby Warburg

Author(s): Andrzej Leśniak
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Warburg; art history; atlas; political

Summary/Abstract: The unnamed science proposed by Aby Warburg is an intellectual project within whose range images are treated as complex cultural phenomena. The Mnemosyne Atlas, its most radical fragment, is critically valuable not only vis à vis the limits of the history of art as a discipline but also the hierarchy that defines visual art. For this reason, there exists a need for a political analysis of the Atlas that would take into consideration the significance of the „moment of the new exchange” programmed by Warburg on the modern scene of the visual.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 02-03
  • Page Range: 156-161
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish