To a greater extent than still widely assumed, the German scholar Aby Warburg drew, throughout his life, on the lessons of two of its early episodes: his travels of 1895–96 among Pueblo Indian communities in the North American Southwest, and his residence of 1896–97 in Berlin, which he prized as a center for the study of ethnography, ethnology, and anthropology. Over the next three decades, this pioneering thinker was able to affect a fruitful amalgamation of those disciplines with that of art history (in which he had himself been trained): the origin of a form of cultural studies that continues to exert an extraordinary intellectual allure. Quoting from Warburg’s diaries, notebooks, and correspondence, this newly translated study throws fresh light on a most eventful journey through the realm of ideas.
 

Horst Bredekamp is professor of art and image history at Humboldt University in Berlin and was one of the three founding directors of Berlin’s Humboldt Forum. Elizabeth Clegg is an art historian who writes on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Slavic and Germanic Central Europe.
 

Preface
Introduction: Between Two Worlds
1. 1879–1895: A Sensibility in the Making
2. 1895–1896: On the Move in America; Sites, Insights, Ideas
3. 1896–1897: Völkerkunde in Berlin; Objects and Narratives
4. 1897–1930: The Revelations of a “Larger” View
Notes
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Picture Credits