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Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance: Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art

Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance: Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art

Hardcover

Native American HistoryIndigenous Art of the Americas

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ISBN10: 3775752021
ISBN13: 9783775752022
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: May 17 2022
Pages: 400
Weight: 4.00
Height: 1.18 Width: 8.98 Depth: 11.65
Language: English

The first presentation of Aby Warburg's rarely seen Pueblo art collection, from his famous 1895-96 visit to the US

In 1895, the great German art historian and theorist Aby Warburg (1866-1929) came to the US, where he spent the bulk of his time meeting with Indigenous Americans. The encounter produced two famous works: his 1923 lecture on the Hopi snake ritual, and a body of photographs--both of them much discussed by art historians. Almost unknown until now, however, was the collection of objects he acquired from Pueblo tribes throughout the American Southwest, which he later donated to the Museum fur Völkerkunde (today the Museum am Rothenbaum) in Hamburg.

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Indigenous Art of the Americas