Two forms of gesture: Notes on Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin

Benjamin, A

Two forms of gesture: Notes on Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin

Benjamin, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Aisthesis (Italy), 2017, 10 (1), pp. 21 - 40
Issue Date:: 2017-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Benjamin, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Aisthesis (Italy), 2017, 10 (1), pp. 21 - 40	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/123833
dc.description.abstract	© 2017 A. Benjamin. The paper both connects and disassociates the work of Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg. There are two interrelated undertakings. The first involves the relationship between philosophy and art history and thus how art history figures within the philosophical. The second pertains to the status of the image. Part of the argument to be advanced is that an engagement with philosophical approach to art history yields a concern with the image in which it is the image’s material presence that proves decisive. Indeed, it is by insisting on the object's materiality that it then becomes possible to locate the effective presence of the gesture as integral to the work of art. The contention is that gesture is the intersection of art’s material presence and the concerns of meaning. The paper us develop via an engagement with works by Edgar Degas and Luca Signorelli.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Aisthesis (Italy)	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.13128/Aisthesis-20901	en_US
dc.title	Two forms of gesture: Notes on Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	1	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	10	en_US
utslib.for	2203 Philosophy	en_US
utslib.for	1901 Art Theory and Criticism	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	1	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	10	en_US

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© 2017 A. Benjamin. The paper both connects and disassociates the work of Walter Benjamin and Aby Warburg. There are two interrelated undertakings. The first involves the relationship between philosophy and art history and thus how art history figures within the philosophical. The second pertains to the status of the image. Part of the argument to be advanced is that an engagement with philosophical approach to art history yields a concern with the image in which it is the image’s material presence that proves decisive. Indeed, it is by insisting on the object's materiality that it then becomes possible to locate the effective presence of the gesture as integral to the work of art. The contention is that gesture is the intersection of art’s material presence and the concerns of meaning. The paper us develop via an engagement with works by Edgar Degas and Luca Signorelli.

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