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

Other author Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
Other author Onians, John, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Phaidon Press, 1994.
Description420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subjects
Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
Art.
Art--History.
Art criticism.
Art appreciation.
Art.

Variant title Sight and insight
Portion of title Essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85
Contents "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.
Contents '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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
CreditsContribrtors include: Michael Baxandall, Martin Kemp, David Freedberg and Alex Potts.
Terms of useBritish Library not licensed to copy 0.
Issued in other formOnline version: Sight & insight. London : Phaidon Press, 1994
Issued in other formOnline version: Sight & insight. London : Phaidon Press, 1994
Genre/formFestschriften.
Genre/formworks of art.
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formArt.
Genre/formArt.
Genre/formMélanges (Recueils)
Genre/formŒuvres d'art.
Other titleSight and insight.
Other titleEssays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85.
LCCN 94192568
ISBN0714829714
ISBN9780714829715

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Joyner General Stacks N61 .S48 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold