Visual thinking with images

Visual thinking with Images

Karolina Badzmierowska

Lascaux, France

Gua Tewetthe tree of lifeBorneoIndonesia

André Malraux reviewing the photographs selected for The Voices of Silence (c.1947)

Dennis Adams, “Malraux’s Shoes” (2012). Video still. Single-channel video, 42 minutes. Written and performed by Dennis Adams. Directed by Dennis Adams and Paul Colin.

Malraux’s idea of an imaginary museum,

a “museum without walls” (which he first announced in 1947),

is a prescient manifesto of the digital age

that enacts the displacement of the physical art object and the museum

by photographic reproduction.

Aby M. Warburg, ‘Mnemosyne-Atlas’, 1924 – 1929Mnemosyne-Atlas, Boards of the Rembrandt-Exhibition, 1926

Aby M. Warburg, ‘Mnemosyne-Atlas’, 1924 – 1929Mnemosyne-Atlas, Boards of the Rembrandt-Exhibition, 1926

Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), 1968. Designed by Lina Bo Bardi.

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Visually similar images

The same image but different sizes and sources

Edmund Waller(1605-1687)

If it was painted by Godfrey Kneller it would have to be after 1676 - Kneller arrived to England

this is not a portrait Edmund Waller…

it was not painted by Kneller…

or

Kneller painted it back in Germany/the Netherlands

Robert Bolling (1646–1709)

left London/ moved from London to US in 1660 – he was 14 years old. Could it be possible that painting 1 is his portrait before he left?

Edmund Waller(1605-1687)

By John Riley (1646–1691)

Michael Mapes

Michael Mapes

badzmiek@tcd.ie

http://www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/

Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin

Karolina Badzmierowska