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The city of Hamburg has long been a testbed for architecture. From the breakthrough of expressionism in Chilehaus to the port reconversion into...
One of the greatest lost masterpieces of the 20th century, Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, has miraculously been reconstructed, and is now on view in in Germany... just in time to transform how we see the sensationalistic imagery bombarding social media.
Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. What is the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, this strange assembly of passionate postures, mute and motley on their numbered black panels? A pictorial history of European art; a map showing the pathways of its recurring figures; an instrument for research; an argument about the development of human culture; a catalogue of types; a collage or montage of emotion. Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the German-Jewish art historian whose last years were devoted to the project, described it more soberly, as ‘an attempt at an art-historical cultural science’, and provided an a...