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Pathographies of Modernity with Aby Warburg and Beyond

An Astral Map of Warburgian Constellations

Edited By: Daniela Padularosa

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This volume follows the intersections between art history and other disciplines in Aby Warburg’s writings. Designed as an “astral map,” each chapter is a “constellation” of keywords used to investigate an artwork's “dynamic energy”—its ability to move and change over time.

The present volume aims to follow the many intersections and interferences between art history and other disciplines (such as the history of literature, theatre, cinema,…

The present volume aims to follow the many intersections and interferences between art history and other disciplines (such as the history of literature, theatre, cinema, photography, and dance) which can be found in Aby Warburg’s writings. In particular, the volume is designed as an “astral map,” whereby each chapter represents a “constellation” of polar keywords, such as Pathosformel, ancient/modern, memory, and performativity, that hark back to a Warburgian linguistic and conceptual tradition. The “word,” just like the “image,” polarises within itself two meanings, or rather two opposed expressive modalities. As “binary” terms, the four keywords chosen for this volume express simultaneously the vehicle of movement and the movement itself. Through the reading and contextualisation of Warburg’s work, the essays presented here intend to underline the importance of the concept of “dynamic energy,” in order to investigate the ability of an artwork to “move” and constantly change over time.

Daniela Padularosa is Assistant Professor of German Literature at “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy. She completed her doctorate “Gründungsmythen Europas in Literatur, Musik und Kunst” at the Graduiertenkolleg Bonn, Paris Sorbonne, Florence in 2013. Her fields of interest focus on 20th century German literature and culture—in particular on Dada and the historical avant-gardes, Bertolt Brecht, women’s literature in the GDR—but also on Goethe and the Classical-Romantic era. Her research currently focuses on the relationship between literature and visual arts, with a particular focus on the figure of Aby Warburg. Her publications include Denken im Gegensatz: Hugo Ball. Ikonen-Lehre und Psychoanalyse in der Literatur der Moderne (2016), Il principe delle nubi. Hugo Ball e le forme dell’avanguardia (2018), Danza, Cassandra… Percorsi nel mito in Christa Wolf (2022) and “Lacrime silenziose, ombre colorate e immagini apparenti. L’esperienza di Goethe in Sicilia, la Teoria dei colori e l’influenza di Leonardo” in Intersezioni. Rivista di storia delle idee I (2022).

Monica Centanni, Claudia Cieuivia, Georges Didi-Huberman, Giulia Fanara, Guerra Gabriele, Giulia Iannucci, Aleksandra Jovicevic, Philipe Alain Michaud, Daniela Padularoca, Massimo Palma, Barbara Picht, Daniela Sacco, Davide Stimilli, Sigrid Weigel, Karine Winkelvoss, Gzazia Pulvirenti

Hardback

ISBN: 1-0364-0470-6
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0470-3
Date of Publication: 2024-06-21

Paperback

ISBN: 1-0364-4589-5
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4589-8
Date of Publication: 2025-03-18

Ebook

ISBN: 1-0364-0471-4
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0471-0
Date of Publication: 2025-03-18

Categories: Social Sciences, Sociology, Sociology, Visual Arts, Literature

Pages: 349

Subject Codes:

BIC: JFC, A, D
THEMA: JBCC, A, D