Between the Image and Anthropology: Theatrical Lessons from Aby Warburg’s “Nympha” / Gough, Kathleen M.

Gough, Kathleen M., «Between the Image and Anthropology: Theatrical Lessons from Aby Warburg’s “Nympha”». TDR: The Drama Review, 56,  3, (2012), pp. 114-130

Abstract
In the 1890s Aby Warburg began to articulate a theory of performance that he called the “Pathos Formula.” He conceptualized this formula around the figure-of-woman-inmovement — “Nympha.” The “Nympha” occupies the same place in Warburg’s theory as “strips of film/strips of behavior” does in Richard Schechner’s “Restoration of Behavior.” Warburg’s Nympha illuminates how the invocation of film strips as culturally neutral inflected performance studies from the outset with a gendering that has been reflected and contested ever since.

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ISSN: 1531-4715
DOI: 10.1162/dram_a_00191
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/483808
Language: EN
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