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Lightning symbol and snake dance : Aby Warburg and Pueblo art

Title: Lightning symbol and snake dance : Aby Warburg and Pueblo art / edited by Christine Chávez, Uwe Fleckner.
Publication: Berlin : Hatje Cantz Publishing House, 2022.

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368 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

The legacy of the art and cultural scientist Aby Warburg offers many subjects for reassessment. Almost unknown until now are the artifacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the US in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg (today Museum am Rothenbaum). The results first unfolded in Warburg's famous lecture on the snake ritual of the Hopi (1923). Following Warburg?s transdisciplinary approach, this publication examines his guiding principles in assembling his collection as well as his reading of Pueblo art and culture. It pays tribute to the works and their artistic significance and sheds light on the circumstances of acquisition in the sociopolitical environment of the Pueblo communities of the time. The contemporary fascination with the snake ritual is also a topic. Set against this are the previously neglected perspectives and strategies of Pueblo leaders to regain interpretive sovereignty over culturally sensitive content and imagery. Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is considered as the founder of a modern art history oriented towards cultural studies. His research was mainly concerned with the investigation of the afterlife of antiquity in the Renaissance, which he recorded in his iconic Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Exhibition: Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany (04.03.20222 - 08.01.2023).

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History.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Musuem am Rothenbaum--Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, 4th March, 2022-8th January, 2023.

Call Number

JQF 22-1012

ISBN

3775752021
9783775752022

OCLC

1286958292

Title

Lightning symbol and snake dance : Aby Warburg and Pueblo art / edited by Christine Chávez, Uwe Fleckner.

Publisher

Berlin : Hatje Cantz Publishing House, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Chavez, Christine, editor.

Fleckner, Uwe, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-1012

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