Feb 11, 2021 | Fellowships, Research
In this blog post, short-term fellow Alex Feldman takes a fresh look at the long history of Mercantilist economic thought, urging us to reconsider the traditional ‘zero-sum game’ of economic growth. 1776 in the English-speaking imagination Many thinkers have...
Mar 11, 2021 | Aby Warburg, Research, Studying
On 10 August 1905, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) sent a cablegram from Brussels to his wife, Mary Warburg (1866-1934), which read ‘good journey, arrived safely.’[1] The twofold aim of this trip was for Warburg to work at the Royal Library of Belgium and to attend the...
Jul 9, 2020 | Aby Warburg, History of the Warburg, Research
In 1935, the anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942) wrote to the Warburg Institute from Columbia University with an inquiry on the theme of gesture, sparking a series of letters currently held at the Warburg Institute Archive. In this blog post, Anna Speyart discusses...
Jun 17, 2020 | Aby Warburg, History of the Warburg, Research
On 19 November 1923, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) sent a letter from the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen to congratulate his youngest child, Frede Warburg (1904-2004), on her upcoming nineteenth birthday. He wrote to her after reading a feuilleton in the daily newspaper...
Jun 4, 2020 | History of the Warburg, Research
This week, Paul Kaplan, Professor of Art History at Purchase College, delivered his online presentation The Other Warburg: Aby’s African American Cousin Eugène and his Career as a Sculptor in 1850s Europe as part of the Warburg Institute’s free online...
