ABSTRACT
This article proposes an alternative way of mapping the history of art, one that embraces the adjacent histories that are often taken to be external to the discipline’s “proper” line of inquiry. For this alternative cartography, I turn to a foundational figure in Western art history, Aby Warburg. Yet by also turning to the history of Warburg’s clinical case, I aim to cast in relief the intersections of the critical and clinical at the heart of his life, scholarly practice, and their afterlives. In so doing, I offer one possible answer to the following question: Could practicing art history be conceived as having positive therapeutic effects?
Aby Warburg; Ludwig Binswanger; Occupational Therapy; Art History Methodology