Remembering Edgar Wind – The Edgar Wind Journal

Peter Burke
University of Cambridge
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-0141

Volume 7, October 2024

Abstract This article offers reminiscences of Edgar Wind from the period 1957–62. These memories are followed by an attempt to view his work in context or, more precisely, in two possible contexts. First, I follow the fortune of one of Wind’s favourite concepts, embodiment. Second, I discuss the reception of Wind’s ideas as an example of the distinctive contribution of exiles caught up in the ‘Great Exodus’ of the 1930s to the humanities and social sciences.

Keywords Art; Embodiment; Exiles; History; Iconography

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