title: Probably the largest part of his written legacy, Aby Warburgs letters were an important means to forging  his theory of images. -   [Rezension]
creator: Zöllner, Frank
subject: ddc-700
subject: Arts
subject: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
subject: Aesthetics, Art History
subject: Warburg, Aby
subject: Briefsammlung
subject: Schriftverkehr
subject: Kunstgeschichte <Fach>
description: The review emphasises the high relevance of Warburg's correspondence and praises the present edition of around 7% of the surviving letters and, above all, the authors' competent and well-researched commentaries on the individual letters. The review concludes: ”The letters reflect Warburg’s belief that images should create a certain distance between mankind and the world of objects in order to ensure a conceptual space for reflection (Denkraum der Besonnenheit). This conviction, rooted in nineteenth-century cultural anthropology and philosophy, forms the basis of Warburg’s theory of images and finds particularly vivid expression in his candid letters.”
date: 2022
type: Review
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/review
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9438/
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9438/1/Zoellner_Aby_Warburg_Briefe_Rezension_2022.pdf
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-94380
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
language: eng