• Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich OM CBE FBA (/ˈɡɒmbrɪk/; German: [ˈgɔmbʁɪç]; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after...
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  • Gombrich is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sir Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001), Austrian-born art historian Richard Gombrich (born 1937)...
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    Library. Gombrich is the only child of classical pianist Ilse Gombrich (née Heller; 1910–2006), and Austrian-British art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich. He studied...
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  • für junge Leser) is a history book by Ernst Gombrich. It was written in 1935 in Vienna, Austria, when Gombrich was 26 years old. He was rewriting it for...
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  • edition. Art historian Ernst Gombrich had experience with book production before The Story of Art. He collaborated with Ernst Kris on an unpublished book...
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    expansion of the picture space with the use of a mirror. According to Ernst Gombrich "in its own way it was as new and revolutionary as Donatello's or Masaccio's...
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    popular cinema in a number of superhero film franchises. According to Ernst Gombrich, "we tend to take it for granted rather than to ask questions about...
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  • Indologist and scholar, Richard Gombrich. He is the grandson of Austrian-born art historian Ernst Gombrich. Gombrich has degrees in mathematics, physics...
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    Renaissance art. According to Vasari and other art historians including Ernst Gombrich, he invented oil painting, though most now regard that claim as an oversimplification...
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  • Pictorial Representation, is a 1960 book of art theory and history by Ernst Gombrich, derived from the 1956 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. The book...
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    to its current home at the university in 1958. Bing was succeeded by Ernst Gombrich in 1959. From 1976 to 1990, J. B. Trapp was director, and from 1991...
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    finders to understand: the arrow showing the trajectory of Pioneer. Ernst Gombrich criticized the use of an arrow because arrows are an artifact of hunter-gatherer...
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    that endows them with new, 'sign-giving' qualities." The art historian Ernst Gombrich, described pathosformel as "the primeval reaction of man to the universal...
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    which two different versions have been articulated by Edgar Wind and Ernst Gombrich, to be the key to understanding the painting. Botticelli represented...
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    thought that illustration was from the 17th century, while his colleague Ernst Gombrich judged it to be modern. In 1970, Jung's associate Marie-Louise von Franz...
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    decoration in Islamic art from ancient times to present. The art historian Ernst Gombrich theorized that such highly ornamented patterns can function like a picture...
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    often accompanied by pain. Another explanation, first suggested by Ernst Gombrich, is that the wasps represent the Vespucci family that may have commissioned...
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    resembles her. This claim, however, is dismissed as a "romantic myth" by Ernst Gombrich, and "romantic nonsense" by historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto: The...
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    Books. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-226-75342-3 Gombrich, Ernst. (2005). "Press statement on The Story of Art". The Gombrich Archive. Archived from the original on...
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  • look at and nothing but artificial light to work in." According to Ernst Gombrich, "the emerging discipline of iconology ... must ultimately do for the...
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    use but Picasso and Braque did not adopt it initially. Art historian Ernst Gombrich described Cubism as "the most radical attempt to stamp out ambiguity...
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    also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian Ernst Gombrich, biologist Peter Medawar, and neuroscientist John Carew Eccles. The...
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    antiquity was not naturalistic, for its forms were idealized and geometric. Ernst Gombrich referred to the strictures of this schematic imagery, the adherence...
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    Criticism; The Critical Path Gaston Bachelard: The Poetics of Space Ernst Gombrich: Art and Illusion Martin Heidegger: The Nature of Language; Language...
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    1973 Claude Lévi-Strauss 1974 Ninette de Valois, Maurice Béjart 1975 Ernst Gombrich, Willem Sandberg 1976 Amnesty International, René David 1977 Werner...
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  • literary New Criticism, under the influences of Bernard Berenson and Ernst Gombrich, nuanced discussion of the arts of design since the 1970s have been...
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    that could be more easily controlled". Meyer Schapiro, James Ackerman, Ernst Gombrich and George Kubler (The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things...
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    important member of the Vienna School of Art History. According to Ernst Gombrich, he was "One of the most distinguished personalities of art history"...
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  • Hauser's Marxist approach was criticized by Ernst Gombrich as “social determinism” going too far. Gombrich wrote in his review of The Social History of...
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    vigorous political and social debate. This gave rise to what art historian Ernst Gombrich called a "self-consciousness that made people select the style of their...
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