Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg''s Atlas of Images
ISBN: 9780801464065
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Cornell University Press
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Christopher D. Johnson traces several thematic sequences in the panels of Aby Warburg's encyclopedic Mnemosyne (Atlas of Images), begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929.


Christopher D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought.

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