PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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VALIDATING HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS: AN APPROACH FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ABSTRACT Historians and anthropologists share a common problem of setting criteria for the validation of their interpretations. While many features are shared and explicit—for example, that a full range of data needs to be considered and that information should be reliably sourced—the actual criteria for assessing supportable interpretations are ...
LAWRENCE ROSEN
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”Art and psychoanalysis – 15 June 1988. Speakers: Professor Joseph Sandler and Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich”, part of the series “Dialogues on Contemporary Issues” hosted by the British Psycho-Analytical Society in the summer term of 1988 [PDF]
The previously unpublished conversation between Ernst Gombrich and Joseph Sandler in 1988 constitutes an exciting meeting of minds in the field of art history and psychoanalysis, respectively.
Joseph Sandler +2 more
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‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom [PDF]
This Italian edition of a collection of essays (hitherto unpublished in Italian) by E.H. Gombrich allows us to rethink the connection between words and pictures from a sensibly different perspective from the discussions of the early 2000s.
Giuseppe Barbieri
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Using represented bodies in Renaissance artworks to teach musculoskeletal and surface anatomy
Abstract Surface anatomy is an important skill for students in preparation for patient care, and peer examination is often used to teach musculoskeletal and surface anatomy. An alternative pedagogical approach is to use bodies represented in artworks.
M. Melissa Gross +2 more
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Arte e psicoanalisi nella prospettiva di Gombrich
Ernst H. Gombrich has always shown particular attention to the psychology of art as psychology of representation (and enjoyment) of art. In addition, through his friendship with Ernst Kris, who had been a respected art historian in the staff of the ...
Ferrari, Stefano
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Hegel and Gombrich on the Particular Forms of Art and their Persistence
Hegel’s aesthetics is not only organized around a developed account of the differing artistic genres (from architecture to poetry) but also articulates the importance of the particular forms of art (i.e., the symbolic, classical and romantic).
Allen Speight
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The young Arnold Hauser and the Sunday Circle: the publication of Hauser’s estate preserved in Hungary [PDF]
In his well-known review of Hauser in the Art Bulletin E. H. Gombrich posed the rhetorical question: ‘has a social historian really nothing to say about Ambrogio Lorenzetti’ s Good Government…?’ The preceding passages reveal that Gombrich found him ...
Csilla Markója
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Ernst H. Gombrich on Abstract Painting [PDF]
Ernst H. Gombrich criticized abstract painting with several remarks scattered around his wide oeuvre. I argue that his view of abstract paintings is coherent with the account of pictorial representation he put forward in Art and Illusion, show some ...
Caldarola, Elisa, Elisa Caldarola
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Et in Arcadia ego. Panosfski en perspectiva
En el presente ensayo se analiza la biografía científica del célebre historiador del arte Erwin Panofsky, intentando evaluar su legado a la historia del arte y de la cultura a partir de los comentarios críticos, explícitos o implícitos, que nos ha dejado
Carlos Montes Serrano
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