Caring for Butterflies: a Therapeutic Origin for Art Historical Practice

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2021.188464

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Aby Warburg, Ludwig Binswanger, Occupational Therapy, Art History Methodology

Abstract

This article proposes an alternative way of mapping the history of art, one that embraces the adjacent histories that are often taken to be external to the discipline’s “proper” line of inquiry. For this alternative cartography, I turn to a foundational figure in Western art history, Aby Warburg. Yet by also turning to the history of Warburg’s clinical case, I aim to cast in relief the intersections of the critical and clinical at the heart of his life, scholarly practice, and their afterlives. In so doing, I offer one possible answer to the following question: Could practicing art history be conceived as having positive therapeutic effects?

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  • Kaira M. Cabañas, University of Florida, USA

    Kaira M. Cabañas é bacharel em Estudos comparados (1995, Duke University), mestre em História da Arte (2000, Yale) e doutora em História da Arte (2007, Princeton). Atualmente, é professora de História da Arte Moderna e Contemporânea na Universidade da Flórida, em Gainesville, Estados Unidos. É autora, entre outros livros, de Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art (University of Chicago Press, 2018) e Immanent Vitalities: Matter and Meaning in Modern and Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 2021), e organizadora de vários volumes, dos quais o mais recente é No silêncio que as palavras guardam, de Lula Wanderley (n-1 edições, 2021). Em 2012, foi curadora e organizadora do catálogo da exposição "Espectros de Artaud: Lenguaje y el arte en los años cincuenta" no Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, em Madri, Espanha.

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Published

2021-11-29

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Vol. 19 No. 42 (2021): Homeless Art Histories

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Caring for Butterflies: a Therapeutic Origin for Art Historical Practice. (2021). ARS, 19(42), 261-294. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2021.188464