eprintid: 9431
rev_number: 17
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dir: disk0/00/00/94/31
datestamp: 2025-02-10 14:47:36
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Zöllner, Frank
title: Aby Warburg and the postage stamp. From a collector's passion to a visual theory
subjects: ddc-700
subjects: ddc-740
divisions: i-9
cterms_swd: Warburg, Aby
cterms_swd: Philatelie
cterms_swd: Briefmarke
cterms_swd: Brief
cterms_swd: Sammlung
cterms_swd: Vorlesung
cterms_swd: Geschichte
abstract: Based on the analysis of numerous unpublished sources (letters and lecture notes), the article first outlines the genesis and scope of Aby Warburg's passion for stamps. In fact, philately, along with antiquity, was one of Warburg's interests that occupied him for the longest period of his life and was an essential part of his visual socialization. The main section of the article deals with the visual culture of philately as well as its classification systems, which were an important starting point for Warburg's scientific thought. Finally, it deals with his stamp lecture from 1927 and its pictorial didactics. The focus here is on Warburg's typical bi-polar patterns of interpretation as well as questions about his theory of images, which can be understood much better in the example of the iconology of the postage stamp than in his other projects.
date: 2021
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00009431
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-2
schriftenreihe_order: 65
ppn_swb: 1917139780
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-94312
language: eng
bibsort: ZOLLNERFRAABYWARBURG2021
full_text_status: public
publication: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft
volume: 47.2020
pagerange: 7-49
oa_type: green
laender: LDe
themen: T15
themen: T25
themen: T20
themen: T26
citation:   Zöllner, Frank  (2021) Aby Warburg and the postage stamp. From a collector's passion to a visual theory.   In:  Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, 47.2020 (2021),   pp. 7-49      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9431/1/Zoellner_Aby_Warburg_and_the_postage_stamp_2020.pdf