Full Description
This double Festschrift honours the distinguished careers and academic accomplishment of art historians Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians, as well as their shared life as a married couple on the occasion of the 55th wedding anniversary. Their intellectual paths together and individually have led to unexplored territories extending their discipline and leaving a profound impact on those who have encountered them. We have chosen to felicitate Elisabeth and John together in a book that is personal, creative, and visually engaging. This book offers a platform for the many people who have accompanied them on their journeys, whether for brief moments or across decades and is honoured by contributors from diverse fields, including practising artists, fellow art historians and former students, colleagues from other professions, as well as friends. Since this is a volume for married couple, some chapters are in pairs or jointly authored.
The first section of the book features artworks that resonate with the lives and work and is including paintings, drawings, photography, poetry, fiction and travel writing. The second section presents personal and professional accounts of the roles of Elisabeth and John as teachers, colleagues, scholars, and friends. Some recall first encounters, others collaborations, memorable events, visits, travels and conversations. The third section compiles scholarly articles of traditional Festschrift fare. Here are saluted the theoretical approaches Elisabeth and John have innovated and their influence: the World Art Studies so closely connected to the University of East Anglia, Elisabeth's geography of art and John's neuroarthistory.
Contents
Editors' introduction
Part I
1. A visual homage to the clay stoves in drokpa black tents in Tibet - Diane Barker
2. An evening with John Onians and Elisabeth de Bièvre at the Tchorek-Bentall Studio, Smolna 36, Warszawa, May 2011 - Katy Bentall
3. Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians - Eric Fernie and Lorraine Fernie
4. The road to the south - Barbara Hyde
5. Holland v England / Things you learn at UEA - Will Kemp
6. The ballad of John and Diccon - Diccon Masterman
7. I'd love... / Only a few steps - Robert Short
Tutto intorno - Stephanie Morin
8. Wheels - Juliet Wimhurst
9. Towards the art of writing about art - Nazneen Zafar
The Bees and Buds - Hubert Decleer
Part II
10. Tea in Bowthorpe or Mariusz' architecture - Elisabeth de Bièvre
11. Our first encounter with the Onians - Shareen Blair Brysac
12. D'une génération à l'autre, une amitié de plus de 60 ans! - Blandine Bril
13. Embracing diversity: Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians in China - Yiqiang Cao
14. On John Onians's 80th birthday. Remembering his contribution to the Clark Art Institute as founding director of its research and academic program 1997-99 - Michael Conforti
15. Jumping the frame: eco-stylistics from Norwich - Wilfried van Damme
16. Loyalty - David Freedberg
17. Calmes blocs - Daniela Gallo and Philippe Sénéchal
18. The enlightened house - Derek Gillman and Yael Hirsch
19. Outstanding analyses of architecture: Bearers of Meaning, 1988 - Maria Fabricius Hansen
20. The indefinite object - Edward S. Harwood and Joanne Pillsbury
21. 'Neither trendy nor traditional': John Onians at the Clark - Charles 'Mark' W. Haxthausen
22. Hakuju or White Age Celebration - Harume Hayashi
23. John and Elisabeth - Mary Hollingsworth
24. The story of my PhD with John and Elisabeth - Gyöngyvér Horváth
25. Elisabeth de Bièvre - Maura Kehoe Collins
26. Woman Descending the Staircase: synchronicity, chance and mystery - Jetty Keuning and Jan Eric Visser
27. On John Onians, with thanks - Matthew MacKisack
28. Publishing de Bièvre, E., and Onians, J. - Gillian Malpass
29. Elisabeth and John - Marie-Anne van der Marck
30. The Groves of Norwich - 43 Grove Terrace - Stefan Muthesius
31. An inquisitive irreverence - Keith Roberts
32. 'The Ubiquity of Aesthetics,' ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium - Adam Sammut
33. De wijk en de wereld: a marriage for the universe - Gary Schwartz and Loekie Schwartz
34. Visiting with John and Elisabeth - John Thoburn and June Thoburn
35. Arboreal concatenations. A Quercus cerris for John and Elisabeth in Little Mesopotamia - Thomas Tuohy
36. Art history with an art historian couple: John Onians and Elisabeth de Bièvre - Mohsen Veysi
Drawings - Elena Nesi
37. John the encourager - Adam Zeman
Part III
38. Variations on a theme of phantasia: a tribute to John Onians - Michael A. Arbib
39. Margins in foreign guise: thoughts on some ornamentation in British Library Add. 27261. - Barbara Brend
40. The 'Solomonic windows' of Stirling Chapel Royal: connections between Scotland and the Netherlands - Ian Campbell
41. The groundline: a brief phenomenology - Whitney Davis
42. Neolithic New York: a brief speculation - Simon Dell
Graffiti in Lower Manhattan - Allan Ludwig
43. Homo Imaginativus - Lauren Golden
44. The custom of the country: Latin culture in a provincial landscape - Martin Henig
45. Six men in two boats: Raphael's tapestry cartoons for the Sistine Chapel and their precedents - Sandy Heslop
46. Armenian lessons with George Borrow - George Hyde
47. Picasso: Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon - Martin Kemp
48. In search of the museum / in search of a desert: a frieze and a 'zoophorus' - Sokratis Kioussis
49. Zerstreute Zitate und Gedanken über 'Vulgarität' - Siegfried Kohlhammer
50. The prefix and the semantic drift of Russian verbs - Michael A. Korovkin
51. Microcosms, museums and the miniature: what might a 'World Art' perspective be? - John Mack
52. Rembrandt and the emperor - John Mitchell
53. Sandro Chia: casual victory. An interview. - Stephanie Morin
54. 'Ridentem pingere verum, quid vetat?' or, the choice of Ghezzi - Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
55. Natural and artistic Capricci and Bizzarríe - Rodney Palmer
56. Not the protestant ethic and not the spirit of capitalism: ex Ghana, randomly - Cesare Poppi
57. The penumbra and the shadow - Martin Powers
58. Episodes towards a history of art and environment - Veronica Sekules
59. The agency of a green filing cabinet: from art history to art and back again - Kitty Zijlmans and Rudi Struik
Appendices
Contributors' Biographies
List of Publications, Elisabeth de Bièvre
List of Publications, John Onians
