ATLAS, OR THE ANXIOUS GAY SCIENCE

Aby Warburgs Mnemosyne Atlas (19251929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from a ntiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburgs allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of h is 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 Mnemosyn...[Read more]