Aby Warburgs’s Denkraum: its genesis and its meaning

Caludia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute)

Wed 30 Apr, 4.00pm

IPLondon Aesthetics Forum: Room 246, Senate House, WC1

Aby Warburgs’s Denkraum: its genesis and its meaning
Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg)

Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics
Abstract:

The term Denkraum is one of Aby Warburg's best-known neologisms. Less known, perhaps, is its fundamental significance for Warburg's ideas about the genesis of culture, theoretical and historical. Not only difficult to translate, the loose composite of Denken - thinking or reflection - and Raum - space - is sufficiently open to interpretative possibilities to render it versatile in application. In this paper I shall look at Warburg's underlying concept of distance, from its origin in his so-called 'Fragments' for a Theory of Expression to his Bilderatlas titled Mnemosyne.

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