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Iconology
(3,588 words)
A term from the study of pictures (derived from the Greek
eikon, image or picture and
logos, word) introduced by the art historian and cultural theorist Aby Warburg (1866–1929) to designate his method of investigating European pictorial memory. Unlike the tradition of iconography, which studies the meaning of the symbolic, codified pictorial language of works of art, Warburg’s iconology stands for a broadening of art history into cultural history, philology, and the history of religions. It studies the afterl…
Date:
2020-05-12
Angelus Novus
(4,160 words)
The title of one of many representations of angels by Paul Klee, an oil-transfer drawing with watercolor from 1920, which Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) acquired in June 1921. It became known through the latter’s conceptual image of the “Angel of History” in his last text
Über den Begriff der Geschichte (“On the Concept of History,” 2006), which develops an epistemological critique of the concept of progress of historicism and historical materialism. The dialectical image of the “Angel of History” contains a condensation of Benjamin’s refle…
Date:
2023-10-24
