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Lightning symbol and snake dance : Aby Warburg and Pueblo art / edited by Christine Chávez, Uwe Fleckner ; with contributions by Bruce Bernstein [and twelve others] ; translations, Stefan Barmann [and five others].
Fine Arts Library N5267.W37 L5413 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929--Art collections--Exhibitions.
- Warburg, Aby.
- Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929.
- Pueblo art--History--Private collections--Exhibitions.
- Pueblo art.
- Art--Collectors and collecting--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Snake dance--Exhibitions.
- Snake dance.
- Art--Collectors and collecting.
- Art--Private collections.
- History.
- Private collections.
- Art museums.
- Genre:
- History.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Aby Warburg and Pueblo art
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Hatje Cantz Publishing House, [2022]
- Summary:
- The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg (today Museum am Rothenbaum). The results first unfolded in Warburg's famous lecture on the snake ritual of the Hopi (1923). Following Warburg?s transdisciplinary approach, this publication examines his guiding principles in assembling his collection as well as his reading of Pueblo art and culture. It pays tribute to the works and their artistic significance and sheds light on the circumstances of acquisition in the sociopolitical environment of the Pueblo communities of the time. The contemporary fascination with the snake ritual is also a topic. Set against this are the previously neglected perspectives and strategies of Pueblo leaders to regain interpretive sovereignty over culturally sensitive content and imagery. Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is considered as the founder of a modern art history oriented towards cultural studies. His research was mainly concerned with the investigation of the afterlife of antiquity in the Renaissance, which he recorded in his iconic Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Exhibition: Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany (04.03.20222 - 08.01.2023).
- Notes:
- Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Musuem am Rothenbaum--Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, March 4, 2022-January 8, 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum am Rottenbaum - Kulturen und Künste der Welt, Hamburg, March 4, 2022 - January 8, 2023.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3775752021
- 9783775752022
- OCLC:
- 1286958292
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