A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people, which grew out of a trip to the American Southwest undertaken by Warburg in 1895-1896.
Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the serpent ritual of the Hopi people, which grew out of a trip to the American Southwest undertaken by Warburg in 1895-1896.