dispositif. Through his syncretic approach at the fringes of art-history, cultural anthropology, sciences of religion, and psycho-historical sciences, he revitalised the arthistory discourse in his proposed recovery of "spirit", which he defined as an enduring momentum throughout the various cultural expressions and styles of the particular periods. In this sense, Warburg saw himself as a "... seismograph of the soul, to be placed along the dividing lines between different cultural atmospheres and systems."" /> Ekphrasis and a dynamic mysticism in art - Blassnigg Martha | sdvig press