7 This characterization also captures the entrepreneurial spirit, so to speak, of Warburg’s enterpris (.)Ģ In Warburg’s own case, it is as if a period was placed after the title of a book that did not yet exist.Klein, “La théorie de l’expression figurée dans les traités italiens sur les Imprese, 1555- 1612 (.) Vasari, Le vite de’ più eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550), Einaudi, To (.) Valéry, Tel Quel I, Gallimard, Paris 1941, pp. Proof enough that such narrowmindedness (I can find no better word) was wholly alien to Warburg’s way of thinking is the warning he gave to one of his assistants: when cataloging a book, he thundered,one should not put a period after the title, since “a book keeps on living ” 3. The paradox, whereby a list of the books he purchased should be thought to provide the most reliable image of his work, may also partly answer for the unconscionable delay in bringing Warburg’s unpublished writings to print. ” 1 This observation will, unfortunately, become a topos in later accounts of Warburg’s life and work 2. He rather inclined toward a publication of the catalog of the Library, which would grant, Saxl argued, “the best insight into his activity.
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Landauer, The Survival of Antiquity: The German Years of the Warburg Institute, Yale Univ (.)ġ In a letter of Jto Alfred Doren, who had raised the timely question of how to celebrate Aby Warburg’s sixtieth birthday in an adequate manner, Fritz Saxl rejected in no uncertain terms the idea of an edition of his writings: Warburg himself had apparently forbidden it, and Saxl considered only with reluctance the possibility of publishing a Festschrift in Warburg’s honor. Diers, Warburg aus Briefen: Kommentare zu den Kopierbüchern der Jahre 1905-1918, VCH, Weinhe (.) 1 Warburg Institute Archive, General Correspondence, Fritz Saxl to (.).
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