Marginalia. Aby Warburg, Carl Einstein - Juan José Lahuerta

These two texts are born from two conferences given by the author at the MNCARS. Warburg and Einstein are usually described as marginal or anachronistic. Lahuerta emphasises that marginality and anachronism are precisely what allowed them to provide a material vision of art from the centre of their own time, against traditional historiography categories and the operative model developed by modernity. Warburg, through accumulation, and Einstein, through denuding, kept an incorruptible compromise between their thinking and their living, placing themselves in opposite poles to "organic intellectual", which led them to think that it was more important to leave the office and take action than to take refuge in the ivory tower of word.