Art, Trauma and Social Memory Lecture

This looks like an interesting event, this Sunday: 

Art, Trauma and Social Memory: The Cultural Theories of Aby Warburg (1866-1929)

Professor Matthew Rampley invited by Dominic Paterson 

Sunday 20 May, 3pm

Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

Professor Rampley, Barber Institute, University of Birmingham will introduce the pioneering work of art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), whose wide-ranging interests encompassed field research into Hopi Indian snake rituals alongside the study of Renaissance art. The scope of these interests is encapsulated in the eclectic library of the Warburg Institute (which he founded) and in his unfinished 'Mnemosyne' project, an "art history without a text" as Warburg put it, in which he made constantly changing arrangements of reproductions of artworks attached to large panels. Warburg has become increasingly important to the study of visual culture, and the Mnemosyne Atlas has recently been described as "one of the most fascinating and enigmatic objects in contemporary art" (Philippe-Alain Michaud).

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