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ISBN: HB: 9780226439471

University of Chicago Press

November 2018

400 pp.

21.6x13.9 cm

73 halftones

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£34,00
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Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science

Aby Warburg's "Mnemosyne Atlas" (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg's allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered a breakdown and been institutionalized. It continues to influence contemporary artists today, including Gerhard Richter and Mark Dion.

In this illustrated exploration of Warburg and his great work, Georges Didi-Huberman leaps from "Mnemosyne Atlas" into a set of musings on the relation between suffering and knowledge in Western thought, and on the creative results of associative thinking. Deploying writing that delights in dramatic jump cuts reminiscent of Warburg's idiosyncratic juxtapositions, and drawing on a set of sources that ranges from ancient Babylon to Walter Benjamin, "Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science" is rich in Didi-Huberman's trademark combination of elan and insight.

About the Author

Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including "Images in Spite of All", published by the University of Chicago Press.