Investigator:
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, German Studies, Comparative Literature
Collaborators:
Kizer Walker, Cornell University Library; Peter J. Potter, Cornell University Press; Christopher D. Johnson, Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Collection Type:
Arts & Sciences
Year:
2012
Mnemosyne: Meanderings through Aby Warburg’s Atlas
The goal of the project is to build an interactive resource for the exploration of the fragmentary “atlas of images” left by German Jewish art historian Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929). The Atlas involves the assemblage of hundreds of images juxtaposed on wood panels. An interactive, web-based treatment of the Atlas will realize Warburg’s ideal, namely, that each viewer makes his or her own connections between the myriad images presented in the Atlas. This website will serve as a multimedia companion to “Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought” and will support exploration of new technologies and new partnerships in creating economically viable channels for disseminating scholarship.