Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
by Aby Warburg, edited by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil
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“Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, a legendary modernist epic of visual thinking from the founder of iconology, tracing the migration of symbols through art, history and cosmology. This visual dictionary of symbols encompasses everything from medieval manuscripts to coins, playing cards, postage stamps and modern photographs, always looking for deeper meanings carried by images – a reference volume among art books if ever there was.” Read more...
Romas Viesulas, Five Books Editor
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