The cabinet of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe: an essay in the biographical distillation of affinities.
This article draws on the concept of the 'cabinet of curiosities', Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne atlas, and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, to articulate a shared process of 'distillation of affinities' whereby disparate items, texts, images, and concepts are juxtaposed together to generate rich and un...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 750 - 780 |
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