François Quiviger Curator of Digital Resources, Assistant Librarian, Warburg Institute François Quiviger took his Ph.D. from the Warburg Institute, London, where he works as curator of digital resources, librarian, and researcher. He has written, taught, and curated projects on early modern European academies, on mythology and on Renaissance material culture, art and art theory. His recent book, The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art (London, Chicago 2010), explores the presence and function of sensation in Renaissance ideas and practices, investigating their link to mental imagery and how Renaissance artists made touch, sound, and scent palpable to the minds of their audience. Read more: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/home/staff-contacts/academic-staff/francois-quiviger/ Participant In: Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1 Saturday, October 12th 9:00AM - 4:15PM Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Watch the video [Part 3] » This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric functions – and of affect… read more »
Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1 Saturday, October 12th 9:00AM - 4:15PM Past Event Watch the video [Part 1] » Watch the video [Part 2] » Watch the video [Part 3] » This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image – its elliptical and metaphoric functions – and of affect… read more »