Anthology includes a number of studies of visual culture created by leading Western art historians, historians and philologists of the XX - beginning of the XXI century. The book presents the main contours of the methodological tradition, the foundations of which were laid by Abi Warburg, and the development continues up to the latest work on neuroesthetics, introduces the main problem fields within this tradition and allows you to master a number of methods and approaches to the analysis of visual culture.