engramma the Classical Tradition in Western Memory  

English version La Rivista di Engramma 27, september-october 2003

Engramma’s editorial staff is now engaged with the review of the entire site structure. Besides this aim, the staff is reorganizing published materials in a new index and is creating a search engine for the site.
Thus in Fall 2003 the Rivista di Engramma will be issued in an abridged edition giving priority to the ‘Warburg’ section.
During this period the homepage will keep the access to ‘Editorial Number 26’, offering a picture of contents and methodological development of Engramma in its various sections, updated to july 2003.

 

Warburg

  • Gertrud Bing (1958).
    Aby Warburg, a memory
    On 31st october 1958, on the occasion of the unveiling of a bust representing Aby Warburg and its placement in Hamburg’s Kunsthalle, Gertrud Bing, the closest collaborator of Warburg in his life, held a memorial lecture. In her words the official tone mingles with pithy and unespected aspects of Warburg’s life, giving an all-round portrait of the scholar, as a man and as a master. Bing’s lecture was published in Italian in 1960.
  • Biographical notes
    (by Katia Mazzucco)
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    Essay

  • The art of self-portrait: Francis Bacon learning from Rembrandt and Van Gogh
    (Nadia Mazzon)
    Bacon recreates portrait and self-portrait as an art genre, looking back to great masters of the past.
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    P&M

  • Venomous Vanities. Girl-mirror -skull:
    from     Vanitas to femme fatale
    (Lorenzo Bonoldi)
    A girl looking at herself in a mirror and the image of a skull: risemanticization of a C16th allegory in a perfume advertising image.



    • Editorial Issue

    Engramma     is a cultural research project on the subject of the classical tradition, based on Aby Warburg’s method.
    The aim pursued by Engramma is to outline the unchanging cultural co-ordinates of western memory – myths, figures, words and symbols – in a wide ambit of study: from Renaissance to Antiquity and Contemporary.
    La Rivista di Engramma, active from 2000 and now reaching its XXVI issue, monthly presents various surveys, with on-line essays and unpublished works.
    The ‘alchemical marriage’ between words and images, suggested by Warburg’s method, finds in the information technology and in the hypertextual medium the most suitable form of expression.
    Engramma uses internet not as a mere substitute for paper publishing, bur as a tool for research, as a touchstone for method and as a vehicle for its scholar achievements.
    This editorial issue is intended to explain forms and contents of the surveys in the Rivista.
    The articles presented here show the adequacy of contents to the expressive and functional requirements of internet, and the search for new graphic and logic forms of Engramma.

    Warburg Plates
    Aby Warburg: texts and materials
    Inside Mnemosyne: readings and researches in Aby Warburg’s Atlas
    P&M Essay
    Re-emergences, quotations and engrams in commercial art  
    The essay: from paper to web edition  
    News Galleries
    The classical tradition is up-to-date
    On-line iconographical repertories  
    Hesperides
    Hesperides: experimenting Warburg’s method  

    English/Latin Headings
    Engramma does speak English, Engramma latine loquitur