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Antiquity unleashed : Aby Warburg, Dürer and Mantegna / Marcus Andrew Hurttig ; edited by Stephanie Buck and Andreas Stolzenburg ; translations from the German by Kristin Lohse Belkin.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Courtauld Gallery, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 55 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781907372582
Subject(s): Summary: "Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was one of the most influential art historians and cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Reconstructing a celebrated lecture delivered in 1905, which Warburg illustrated with original works of art, this publication examines his pioneering research on the role of classical antiquity and Italian art in the work of Albrecht Dürer. Focusing on the artist's master drawing The Death of Orpheus, it sheds light both on Dürer's early influences as well as on Warburg's own remarkable intellectual methods."--Page [4] of cover.Summary: "Warburg's 'pop-up' exhibition has here been reconstructed. First deployed by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2011, subsequently on view in Cologne in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and now at The Courtauld Gallery, the installation has been developed by each institution slightly differently, while retaining the core group of works. In London ... additional documents from the Warburg archives have been included, while focusing also on Dürer's dialogue with Italy."--P. 8.
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 17 October 2013-12 January 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 53-55).

"Aby Warburg (1866-1929) was one of the most influential art historians and cultural theorists of the twentieth century. Reconstructing a celebrated lecture delivered in 1905, which Warburg illustrated with original works of art, this publication examines his pioneering research on the role of classical antiquity and Italian art in the work of Albrecht Dürer. Focusing on the artist's master drawing The Death of Orpheus, it sheds light both on Dürer's early influences as well as on Warburg's own remarkable intellectual methods."--Page [4] of cover.

"Warburg's 'pop-up' exhibition has here been reconstructed. First deployed by the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2011, subsequently on view in Cologne in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and now at The Courtauld Gallery, the installation has been developed by each institution slightly differently, while retaining the core group of works. In London ... additional documents from the Warburg archives have been included, while focusing also on Dürer's dialogue with Italy."--P. 8.