Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance

Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art

Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance
Barbara Plankensteiner, Uwe Fleckner, Christine Chavez, Bruce Bernstein, Adam Duran, Lindsey Drury, Rainer Hatoum, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Lea McChesney, Nancy J Parezo
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Hardback
h295 x 225mm - 400pg
28 Apr 2022 GE
International import eta 7-19 days
9783775752022
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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 fur Voelkerkunde 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.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9783775752022
Published: 28 Apr 2022
Published In: Germany
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Format: Hardback
Height: 295mm
Width: 225mm
Weight: 1820g
Pages: 400

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