'Warburg, Surrealism, and the Other Renaissance'. Conference Aby Warburg: Image, Memory, Montage'. University of Turku, Department of Art History, December 2014. (original) (raw)

It's not often that scholars of Aby Warburg and surrealism get together, and perhaps after my paper we'll know why. It is, though, not that surprising that Warburgian and surrealist interests should find an encounter, given that there are a number of basic points of intersection in their mutual interests. One of the most significant legacies of the methods developed by Warburg and the surrealists is that of the juxtaposition and the interplay of images, and both have been acknowledged as opening out art historical and cultural discourse beyond linear narratives into what Georges Didi-Huberman defined as a "collision of heterogeneous temporalities" and the migration of forms across cultures.