Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, Date: 1999. Hardcover. Near fine. Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation, and in particular he contemplated the meaning of the re-use of ancient motifs. His scholarship - published in German in 1932 in two volumes encompassing all of his published essays along with manuscript notes in his working copies - has had a crucial influence on the work of twentieth-century art historians. Now, with the publication of this new translation of The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, these seminal volumes are available in their entirety in English for the first time." Introduction by Kurt W. Forster. Translation by David Britt. Thick royal octavo: [868] p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine. 1999. Getty Research Institute ISBN 0892365374 9780892365371 [US]

Museum Publications. New. Date: 1999. Hardcover. 0892365374 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, like new, pristine, never opened -- 868 pages, 232 b/w illustrations. Description: "Aby Warburg—bibliophile, scholar, library founder—has become known as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Born in 1866 as the eldest son of a leading family of bankers, he purportedly turned his birthright over to younger brother Max in favor of committing some of the family's vast financial resources to scholarship, assembling a library that later formed the nucleus of the Warburg Institute in London. In 1932 Warburg's collected works—all of his essays published during his lifetime along with manuscript notes in his working copies—were published in German in two volumes. This new translation marks the first time these seminal volumes have been made available in their entirety in English. As an art historian, Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which the art was practiced, its social and cultural contexts, and its conceivable historical meaning. In particular, he often contemplated the meaning of the reuse of antique motifs and the imitation of antique institutions in art, particularly during the Italian Renaissance. He eventually defined ...