Warburg Institute (6)

Glad to see that the repurposing/representation of the Warburg has made it suddenly more mainstream – as was intended by its redesign; but slightly odd to see it now regarded as a place for the study of the arcane.

When I first went as a postgraduate in 1977, someone had told me that it held the papers of Aleister Crowley, but in those days Warburg’s interest in magic, let alone Aleister Crowley’s, had been somewhat sidelined: it was more about language and text and the transmission of ideas.  Maybe it was something about the different floors.  It’s the ground floor stacks containing books relating to Bild (Image) which have expanded most.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/sep/25/occult-worlds-weirdest-library-warburg-institute?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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