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Speaker: Matthew Vollgraff

Rudiments and Revenants: Warburg, Darwin and the Biology of Gesture

Research Seminar
By analyzing Aby Warburg’s reception of evolutionary thought – both with and against Darwin – this research seminar offers a new reading of Warburg’s understanding of history, demonstrating how the circulation of images between art and science enabled the conversion of expressive gesture into a fossil of deep time. [more]
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