Title & Author:

Sight & insight : essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85 / edited by John Onians.

Publication:

London : Phaidon Press, 1994.

Description:

420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"I wonder ..." : a short history of amazement / John Onians -- A rare bronze kouros and the prehistory of the devil / Marian Wenzel -- Idols and likenesses: Origen, Homilies on Exodus VIII.3, and its reception / Carlo Ginzburg -- Fictive painting in twelfth-century Paris / Michael Evans -- A palaeographer's odyssey / A.C. de la Mare -- Sicut erat in diebus Antonii : the devils under the bridge in the Tribulations of St Anthony by Hironymus Bosch in Lisbon / Jean Michel Massing -- Fine art and festivity in Renaissance Venice : the artist's part / Jennifer M. Fletcher -- A new document about Titian's Pietà / Charles Hope -- Van Dyck's Continence of Scipio as a metaphor of statecraft at the early Stuart court / David Kunzle -- From Parnassus to Careggi : a seventeenth-century celebration of Plato and Renaissance Florence / Elizabeth McGrath -- Coming into line : graphic demonstrations of skill in Renaissance and Baroque engravings / Martin Kemp -- The failure of colour / David Freedberg -- Nature, dreams and realities : ambiguities of visual imagery in seventeenth-century Sweden / Allan Ellenius -- Composition, perspective and presence : observations on early academic theory in France / Thomas Puttfarken -- Interpretations of Timanthes's Sacrifice of Iphigenia / Jennifer Montagu -- No telling, with Tiepolo / Svetlana Alpers -- Herder's Plastik / Michael Podro -- Dolls and things : the reification and disintegration of sculpture in Rodin and Rilke / Alex Potts.
'Decadence in India' : reflections on a much-used word in studies of Indian art / Partha Mitter -- Fixation and distraction : the nail in Braque's Violin and pitcher (1910) / Michael Baxandall.
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Summary:

This book contains a collection of original essays by a group of Professor Gombrich's pupils. Masters now themselves and spread throughout the world, Gombrich's pupils have continued their independent researches and have achieved distinction in many fields. Not forming a 'school' in any narrow sense, they reflect the influence of their master rather in their range of interests and in a robust individualism. These essays, presented in affectionate tribute, will be read and re-read with interest and pleasure, not only by scholars but by admirers of Professor Gombrich worldwide.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0714829714
9780714829715

Subject:

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
Gombrich, Ernst Hans, 1909-
Art.
Art History.
Art criticism.
Art appreciation.
Art Histoire.
Critique d'art.
Art Appréciation.
art history.
art criticism.
Beeldende kunsten.
Aesthetics

Form/genre:

Festschriften.
works of art.
History
Art
Mélanges (Recueils)
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
Onians, John, 1942-

Sight and insight
Essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85

Holdings:

Location: Library main 105535
Call No.: N7442.2.G66 (ID:94-B2230)
Status: Available