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The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity Hardcover - 1999

by Aby Warburg; Introduction by Kurt W. Forester; David Britt (Translator)


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Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation, and in particular he
contemplated the meaning of the re-use of ancient motifs. His scholarship--published in German in 1932 in two volumes encompassing all of his published essays along with manuscript notes in his working copies--has had a crucial influence on the work of twentieth-century art historians. Now, with the
publication of this new translation of The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, these seminal volumes are available in their entirety in English for the first time.

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  • Title The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
  • Author Aby Warburg; Introduction by Kurt W. Forester; David Britt (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 868
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Los Angeles
  • Date 1999
  • ISBN 9780892365371 / 0892365374
  • Weight 4.49 lbs (2.04 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.3 x 7.25 x 2.47 in (26.16 x 18.42 x 6.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, Renaissance
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-25943
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.024

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Citations

  • Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 113
  • Foreword, 07/01/1999, Page 41
  • Library Journal, 06/01/1999, Page 110

About the author


Kurt W. Forster is the director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and was the founding director of the Getty Research Institute. David Britt has translated numerous catalogs and books, including Friedrich Gilly, Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 and Nicolas Le Camus de Msieres,
The Genius of Architecture.
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