Global Culture after Gombrich
Art Mind World

Edited by John Onians,Cao Yiqiang,Matthew MacKisack,Nicolas Penny

ISBN13: 9781789389968

Imprint: Intellect Books

Publisher: Intellect Books

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Published: 28/10/2024

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Ernst Gombrich can be considered the most influential art historian of the 20th-century. Until now, however, the global impact of his work has been under-appreciated. Global Culture after Gombrich: Art, Mind, World presents essays by historians of art and culture - themselves students of Gombrich or associated with his scholarly home, the Warburg Institute - from Asia, the USA, and Europe. Subjects range from picture-making’s place in human evolution to the visual marginalia of the Renaissance, and from nineteenth-century modernism to the implications of the latest neuroscience for cultural history. Other chapters treat fundamental issues, such as the notion of connoisseurship, the fate of the idea of ‘culture’, or the cultural specificity of modernism. They range from theoretical broadsides – notably, a defence of the ‘intelligence’ of art - to intricate reflections – for example on caricature as a style. In showing how Gombrich initiated enquiries that have spread in numerous – and global – directions, Global Culture after Gombrich: Art, Mind, World makes a vital contribution to contemporary debates around the languages of art history and showcases the range of approaches and methods by which art history is, and has yet to be, written.
Acknowledgements Preface    John Onians, Nicolas Penny and Cao Yiqiang  Introduction    Cao Yiqiang  ART 1. Doodling with Ernst Gombrich    Bill Sherman  2. A 'Renaissance' of Style – Reflections on the Style of Caricature    Sybille Moser-Ernst  3. Dorothea Beside Ariadne    Nicolas Penny  MIND 4. The Idea of Culture: Rise, Fall, Revival    Peter Burke  5. Seeing theMind: How a Knowledge of the Brain Can Help Us to Re-write the History of Culture    John Onians  6. Pictorial Art and Global Psychological Modernity    Whitney Davis  WORLD 7. Art History in a Global Perspective, Once Again A Modest Proposal    Carlo Ginzberg  8. Vasari, Art History And The Modernist Canon    Partha Mitter  9. Art and Intelligence    Cao Yiqiang    AFTERWORD 10. What China Meant to E H Gombrich    Leonie Gombrich  11. Gombrich and China: a Mutual Discovery    Cao Yiqiang
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