Technique and image in Aby Warburg

Abstract

In this article a specific kind of access to Aby Warburg’s work is intended through the idea of “technique”. Notions such as “Denkraum”, “image” and “magic” are read in a manner that links the artistic technique with the Warburg’s critique of technique in general. At last, a reading of his early text “Airship and submarine in medieval imagination ”develops a constellation of images related to the topics Warburg deploys in his Atlas Mnemosyne.

Keywords

• técnica
• aby warburg
• imágenes