Image Journeys: The Warburg Institute and a British Art History

This book accompanies the exhibition 'Bilder Auf Wanderscaft' that took place at the Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte in Munich. The book describes the archival elements to the 1941 photographic exhibition, English Art and the Mediterranean, that was a ground breaking photographic survey of Britain's relationship to European and Mediterranean culture. The Warburg Institute, as a refugee organisation, made this exhibition as a part of the war effort. It travelled to 20 destinations in the UK and was seen by over 20,000 people. This was groundbreaking for a number of reasons; this was the first proper survey of its type of 'English' art and it was an early example of an academic organisation searching for new audiences. The book details the archival objects related to the exhibition, its publication and it's wider context. Mick Finch co-edit and contributed to this publication.