| 释义 |
Warburgian, a.|ˌwɔːˈbɜːgɪən|
[f. the name of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), German-Jewish cultural historian + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Warburg or his work, or the Warburg Institute, founded (1904) by him in Hamburg as Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg but subsequently (1933) transferred to London. Hence Warˈburgianism.
1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 273, I have neither an aesthetic inclination towards it [sc. Renaissance paganism] nor a Warburgian interest in the development of myth. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 277/1 It is true that when people ask the staff of the Institute what the ‘Warburgian Method’ really is they sometimes receive the answer that the whole point of ‘The Warburg’ is that it has no method. 1974K. Clark Another Part of Wood v. 190 The parts of my writing that have given me most satisfaction, for example, the chapter in The Nude called ‘Pathos’, are entirely Warburgian. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Nov. 36/3 In nearly all his studies Gombrich follows the Warburgian practice of studying subject rather than form; but it is a humanized Warburgianism. |