Warburg Library: a “Collection of Problems” and Memories

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Alice Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14254
• topic: Aby Warburg; Memória; Coleção; Aby Warburg; Memory; Collection

Aby Warburg was a name that evoked more than a man, a library: the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg (KBW) in Hamburg. The article discusses the “unnamed science” created by Warburg to sort his personal collection that became public, reflecting his enthusiasm for collective memory. The library also hosts the Atlas Mnemosyne (1924-1929), which is made up of blades portraying an alternative version of the History of Art, a collection of organized images, in the same way as the library, by criteria of “good neighbor”. The KBW–which survived two wars, a move to London, the mental breakdowns of its creator –became eternal after its opening to the public in 1926 and still reverberates through the numerous works of contemporary art.