Aby Waburg and Anti-Semitism: Poliical Perspectives on Images and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780814332559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 264 str.

Charlotte Schoell-Glass

Opis

Art historian Aby Warburg devoted himself to reinterpreting the revival of antiquity within the Renaissance. This study argues that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and universal scholarship.