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Doroszuk, Hanna: Atlas Mnemosyne jako źródło inspiracji w sztuce współczesnej na przykładzie twórczości Goshki Macugi
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objects of his research. Worthy of mention is also the trip that Macuga undertook retracing
Warburgs expedition to study the Hopi Indians.
On closer inspection, Macugas work shows that these inspirations reach much further
and are manifested also in the message carried by her works, reflecting the practices used
by Warburg while compiling his magnum opus, the Mnemosyne Atlas.
The basis for an interpretation of black-and-white plates, applied in the present paper, was
the work of the French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman who not only has contributed
crucial texts on the contemporary reception of the Mnemosyne Atlas, of key importance for
the present discussion, but has interpreted Warburgs oeuvre in a practical manner as well.
The exhibition, Atlas: How to Carry the World on Ones Backl, curated by him, is the hitherto
most extensive direct reception of the Mnemosyne Atlas.
Formal references to Warburg s Mnemosyne Atlas in Macugas work were never intended
to be as straightforward as in the case of Didi-Hubermans work. Yet, a detailed analysis
reyeals that a resemblance of certain features cannot be accidental. Anachronisms, the lack of
hierarchy of the compared elements, no real between the materiał and metaphysical worlds,
and an attempt at finding a certain uniyersality in the real world are just a handful of such
similarities. Together they contribute to Goshka Macugas artistic practices being an alter-
native for a traditional archiyal research. A
Translated by Joanna Wolańska
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ARTYKUŁY
Hanna Doroszuk
Warburgs expedition to study the Hopi Indians.
On closer inspection, Macugas work shows that these inspirations reach much further
and are manifested also in the message carried by her works, reflecting the practices used
by Warburg while compiling his magnum opus, the Mnemosyne Atlas.
The basis for an interpretation of black-and-white plates, applied in the present paper, was
the work of the French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman who not only has contributed
crucial texts on the contemporary reception of the Mnemosyne Atlas, of key importance for
the present discussion, but has interpreted Warburgs oeuvre in a practical manner as well.
The exhibition, Atlas: How to Carry the World on Ones Backl, curated by him, is the hitherto
most extensive direct reception of the Mnemosyne Atlas.
Formal references to Warburg s Mnemosyne Atlas in Macugas work were never intended
to be as straightforward as in the case of Didi-Hubermans work. Yet, a detailed analysis
reyeals that a resemblance of certain features cannot be accidental. Anachronisms, the lack of
hierarchy of the compared elements, no real between the materiał and metaphysical worlds,
and an attempt at finding a certain uniyersality in the real world are just a handful of such
similarities. Together they contribute to Goshka Macugas artistic practices being an alter-
native for a traditional archiyal research. A
Translated by Joanna Wolańska
86
ARTYKUŁY
Hanna Doroszuk