Full Description
A holistic and systematic analysis of Ernst Gombrich as theorist
Offers the first holistic and systematic analysis of Gombrich's theoretical ideas and interrogation of their sources
Examines both the history of art and architecture and its current practice
Arranges all of Gombrich's sideas howing the aptitude and validity of its theoretical load
Enables a new understanding of the nature of Art History and its presuppositions
Captures and retains Gombrich's appeal and humour, and his straightforward style without losing depth
This is the first English translation of Gombrich: una teor a del arte, by Joaqu n Lorda, originally published in 1991.
Lorda was considered to be one of Gombrich's best students and this book presents an extensive, expansive and holistic analysis of Gombrich's thought. It is structured around a set of key ideas and themes: Science, Joke, Game and Rhetoric. Lorda provides in-depth analysis of Gombrich's engagement with figures such as Huizinga, Freud, Hegel, and Popper.
While there has been extensive secondary literature on Gombrich, this is the first book to provide a systematic analysis of his ideas and theoretical frameworks, taking into account the entirety of his writings. This major work of scholarship sheds new light on Gombrich as a thinker and turns Gombrich's ideas into a workable theory of art that can be used as an instrument to examine both the history of art and architecture and its current practice.
Contents
List of Figures
Foreword and Acknowledgements
Preliminary Note
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Paradigms and Analogies
Science, Joke, Play and Rhetoric
1. Science
2. The Joke
3. Play
4. Rhetoric
Part II: Approaches to Progress
Topics of Western Art
5. Vasari and the Classical Theory
6. Beauty as the Objective
7. Art and Progress
8. Winckelmann and Hegel
9. Primitivism
Part III: Metaphor and Complex Order
Ideas for a Theory of Art
10. Art and Metaphor
11. Mastery
12. Style
13. Evolution
14. Creation
15. Expression
16. Understanding
17. Interpretation
Postscript: Joaquín Lorda: A Few Afterthoughts, by Partha Mitter
Notes
Specific Bibliography and Abbreviations
General Bibliography
Bibliography of the Works of Joaquín Lorda
Index
