Aby Warburg and Franz Boas: two letters from the Warburg archive. Correspondence between Franz Boas and Aby Warburg (1924-1925)

The correspondence between Aby Warburg and Franz Boas casts interesting light on the dialogue involving the history of art and anthropology and conducted in the first decades of the twentieth century - a crucial moment in the history of both disciplines. The presented correspondence confirms the profundity and range of Warburg's interest in cultural anthropology and his proclivity for obliterating the borderline between cultural anthropology and the history of art as well as a readiness to transfer his library to the USA.