eprintid: 9438
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 24
dir: disk0/00/00/94/38
datestamp: 2025-02-20 15:34:30
lastmod: 2025-03-28 09:40:06
status_changed: 2025-02-20 15:34:30
type: review
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Zöllner, Frank
title: Probably the largest part of his written legacy, Aby Warburgs letters were an important means to forging
his theory of images. -
 [Rezension]
subjects: ddc-700
divisions: i-9
cterms_swd: Warburg, Aby
cterms_swd: Briefsammlung
cterms_swd: Schriftverkehr
cterms_swd: Kunstgeschichte <Fach>
abstract: 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
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00009438
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-2
schriftenreihe_order: 74
ppn_swb: 1919070710
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-94380
language: eng
bibsort: ZOLLNERFRAPROBABLYTH2022
full_text_status: public
publication: The Burlington magazine
volume: 164
number: 1434
pagerange: 932-933
laender: LDe
oa_type: green
themen: T20
citation:   Zöllner, Frank  (2022) Probably the largest part of his written legacy, Aby Warburgs letters were an important means to forging his theory of images. - [Rezension].   In:  The Burlington magazine, 164 (2022), Nr. 1434.   pp. 932-933      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/9438/1/Zoellner_Aby_Warburg_Briefe_Rezension_2022.pdf