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Looking for answers : conversations on art and science / Ernst Gombrich, Didier Eribon.
Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

Looking for answers : conversations on art and science / Ernst Gombrich, Didier Eribon.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1993.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189) and index.
Preface -- The double life of a historian. Vienna and Mantua ; London -- "There is no such thing as art". The importance of tradition ; A three-dimensional world ; The sense of order -- The urge to explain. The limits of interpretation ; Matters of taste -- Epilogue.
Also issued online.
Summary:

"People know me as the author of The Story of Art who have never heard of me as a scholar. But many of my colleagues have never read the book. They may have read my papers on Poussin or Leonardo, but not that. It is a curious double life." Sir Ernst Gombrich is one of the very few men able to lead such a double life, as familiar to the general public as to academicians. Recently the French intellectual Didier Eribon engaged in a series of probing conversations with Gombrich, seeking to discover how his mind and attitudes had been formed during his early years in Vienna and how they developed after he emigrated to England in 1939. There, Gombrich wrote The Story of Art, his acclaimed introductory art survey, and became director of the Warburg Institute in London. The result of the dialogue between these two men is found in this fascinating and thought-provoking volume. Gombrich tells of reading, examining, pondering and talking to numerous historians, psychologists, artists, and philosophers - among them Erwin Panofsky, Karl Popper, Oskar Kokoschka, and Konrad Lorenz - about subjects ranging from art history to biology and zoology. The reader observes one of our century's most acute minds as he informally brings together all the themes that have preoccupied him for over sixty years - the "meaning" of paintings especially those of the Renaissance; the relation between representational art and perception; and the way in which our responses are conditioned by conventions, history, social pressures, and changes of taste. As undogmatic, skeptical, and wide-ranging as ever, Gombrich not only provides a brilliant account of his life's work but also makes us think anew about fundamental issues, provoking as many questions as he answers.

ISBN:

0810933829
9780810933828

Subject:

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001 Interviews.
Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909- Entretiens.
Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001
Art historians Austria Interviews.
Historiens d'art Autriche Entretiens.
Art historians
Kunstbeschouwing.
Kunst.
Wetenschap.
Austria

Form/genre:

Interview
Interviews.
interviews.

Added entries:

Eribon, Didier.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 84621
Call No.: ID:93-B1474
Status: Available

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