Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as another iconoclastic way
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- dc.contributor.author Narbón Homs, Xavier
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-08T06:57:12Z
- dc.date.available 2024-01-08T06:57:12Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract There are other forms of iconoclasm besides the destruction of idols. For example, an iconoclast can be considered one who, instead of eliminating a deified image, reveals the trick of a magician. The manipulator distracts attention with the gesture of one hand while the other acts. This action affects everyone when it is driven by political-economic power. Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas aims to eliminate magic and reveal the hidden plot that seeks to dominate society. His first panel already announces this: at the top, a map of the zodiac constellations; in the middle, Europe; and below, a genealogical tree of the Medici-Tornabuoni banking family. The Renaissance elites accumulate wealth and influence because it is seemingly dictated by the stars from birth. It is an illusion they display on the roofs of their palaces in the same way that a war is justified by a prophecy. There are some coincidences between Giordano Bruno, Aby Warburg and Vilém Flusser, in their respective ways to explain the dual role of image: both as a weapon of propaganda and as a device to disclose the truth. This article aims to reveal two different types of montages: the persuasive one, controlled by people in power through the ages, which is dismantled by the other, the photographic Warburg Atlas. A mirror broken into fragments, therefore, breaks the mirage: a new iconoclastic way.
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- dc.identifier.citation Narbon X. Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as another iconoclastic way. Eur Rev. 2023;31(1):17-27. DOI: 10.1017/S1062798722000527
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1062798722000527
- dc.identifier.issn 1062-7987
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58634
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
- dc.relation.ispartof European Review. 2023;31(1):17-27.
- dc.rights © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Academia Europaea. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- dc.title Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as another iconoclastic way
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