Aby Warburg and America

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Aby Warburg and America is written by Horst Bredekamp and published by Bard Graduate Center - Cultura. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1941792278 (ISBN 10) and 9781941792278 (ISBN 13).

To a greater extent than still widely assumed, the German scholar Aby Warburg drew, throughout his life, on the lessons of two of its early episodes: his travels of 1895-96 among Pueblo Indian communities in the North American Southwest, and his residence of 1896-97 in Berlin, which he prized as a center for the study of ethnography, ethnology, and anthropology. Over the next three decades, this pioneering thinker was able to affect a fruitful amalgamation of those disciplines with that of art history (in which he had himself been trained): the origin of a form of cultural studies that continues to exert an extraordinary intellectual allure. Quoting from Warburg's diaries, notebooks, and correspondence, this newly translated study throws fresh light on a most eventful journey through the realm of ideas.