Quarant’anni di bibliofilia e iconofilia. Osservazioni sul montaggio del libro Mnemosyne di Aby Warburg

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Katia Mazzucco
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/2
Language Italian Pages 36 P. 303-338 File size 2283 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2011-002010
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In June 1927, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg celebrated "forty years of bibliophily". On the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of his brother Max, Aby Warburg organized a guided tour of his library and a photographic exhibition presented with original documents: one example of the practical side of the "Bild und Wort" method. These two terms were used by Aby Warburg to describe a theme of his research, namely the complex relation between iconographic and textual tradition and the theory of the function of the human visual memory. At the same time, "image and word" were research tools, experimented by Warburg in structuring his lectures as reading plus slideshow plus guided visit of the panels and in creating a photographic collection in his Library. It was from this lecturing and exhibiting practice, and from the desire to collect and disseminate his research in a suitable manner, that Warburg’s project for an atlas-book, entitled Mnemosyne, took its origin and form. "The" Mnemosyne was intended to be a work dedicated to the investigation of the dynamics of the Western tradition and its cultural memory, focusing on the examples provided by the "posthumous life" of antiquity during the Renaissance.

Keywords: Aby M. Warburg, Warburg Library, <i>Mnemosyne, Bilderatlas, Bilderreihen</i>/exhibitions, Montage, <i>Geburtstagsparade</i>

Katia Mazzucco, Quarant’anni di bibliofilia e iconofilia. Osservazioni sul montaggio del libro <i>Mnemosyne </i> di Aby Warburg in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 2/2011, pp 303-338, DOI: 10.3280/SF2011-002010