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Title

The afterlife of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg : the emigration and the early years of the Warburg Institute in London / edited by Uwe Fleckner and Peter Mack.

Publication

• Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co., [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fleckner, Uwe.
• Mack, Peter, 1955-

Description

249 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

On December 13, 1933, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg left its home in Hamburg and went into exile in London, salvaging the books and painting collection of its founder Aby Warburg. The scholarly arrival of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek in the intellectual life of the British metropolis, which, in 1944, finally resulted in the integration of the Warburg Institute in the University of London, started an ongoing process of intellectual exchange between German and English research traditions that is still going on today. Essays by internationally renowned scholars, among them many witnesses to the Warburg Institute's intellectual work of the early years, are dedicated to how the intellectual approach of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek contributed to the English scholar community. The publication also examines how the move to London affected the research of the K.B.W. and how it made the Warburg Institute one of the world's most important humanities research facilities.

Series Statement

Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 12

Uniform Title

Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 12.

Subject

• Warburg Institute. Library > History
• Warburg Institute > History
• Warburg Institute
• Warburg Institute. Library
• Warburg Institute > History
• 1900-1999
• Research libraries > England > London > History > 20th century
• Humanities libraries > England > London > History > 20th century
• Bibliothèques de recherche > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Sciences humaines > Bibliothèques > Histoire > Angleterre > Londres > 20e siècle
• Humanities libraries
• Research libraries
• Research libraries > England > London > History > 20th century
• Humanities libraries > England > London > History > 20th century
• England > London

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English and German text.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hermia's voyage : a preface / Uwe Fleckner -- Family matters : The Great Depression of 1929 and its consequences for the Warburg Library / Isabella Woldt -- "Das was ich als Jude vertrete, kann ich auch in England oder Frankreich sein" : a letter by Gertrud Bing to Hanns Swarzenski of May 1933 / Hanna Vorholt -- Disseminating Warburgianism : the role of the "Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes" / Elizabeth McGrath -- Oxford and the Warburg Institute in the early fifties : a brief reminiscence / Michael Kauffmann -- "A family, not an institute" : the Warburg Institute in the 1950s / Jennifer Montagu -- From South Kensington to Bloomsbury and beyond : the intellectual life of the early Warburg Institute / Sydney Anglo -- A diarist's view : Roger Hinks on the Warburg Institute "twenty-five years after its settling in London" / Elizabeth Sears -- Why historiography? Fritz Saxl's thoughts on history and writing history / Dorothea McEwan -- Touching on something deep : Frances A. Yates and Warburg Institute as a place of discovery / Margaret M. McGowan -- Edgar Wind: Images and ideas / Pablo Schneider -- Critical detachment : Ernst Gombrich as interpreter of Aby Warburg / Claudia Wedepohl -- A divided legacy : Ernst Gombrich's English translation of the German tradition of critical art history / Alex Potts -- Fruitful intellectual exchanges : The Warburg Institute's impact on Britain and Britain's impact on the Warburg Institute / John Onians -- The afterlife of "Nachleben" : the census of antique works of art and architecture known in the Renaissance / Arnold Nesselrath.

ISBN

• 9783110438307
• 3110438305

LCCN

9783110438307

OCLC

• 920541312
• SCSB-12277275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library