A Queen's visual education: A letter from Kenneth Clark to Fritz Saxl, 27th July 1943

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4 novembre 2019

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Johannes von Müller, « A Queen's visual education: A letter from Kenneth Clark to Fritz Saxl, 27th July 1943 », Bilderfahrzeuge, ID : 10670/1.tth1ru


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“Dear Saxl”, Kenneth Clark writes on the 27 of July 1943 to the director of the Warburg Institute, “I have given away the original sets of photographs of the bronze effigies in Westminster Abbey”. As enigmatic as these few words may seem at first, they speak to some of the most pertinent aspects of the history of the migration of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg and its early years in exile. Clark, at that time director of the National Gallery, had been aware of Aby Warburg an...

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