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Bernard Smith and the Formalesque.(Art)(The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History)(Critical essay)
WHEN THE ART HISTORIAN Ernst Gombrich reviewed a book called On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence Past and Present in 1968, he began by saying: "A good race horse, one supposes, is one that wins races, a good chess player one who can beat his opponents ... a good linguist by his testable mastery of foreign languages. But how can we tell what is a good work of art or who is a great artist?" Equally mysterious is that which propels an art historian--or any writer for that matter--to spend the larger part of their lives attempting to answer that question and an even more elusive one: the evolution of "styles" in art.
That these mutations took place, especially ...
- Sir Ernst Gombrich Discusses His Book `A Story of Art'
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday January 14, 1996 700+ words
...art.' ' LIANE HANSEN, Host: Sir Ernst Gombrich [sp], I am opening my copy of your...for this edition of the book? Sir ERNST GOMBRICH, Art Historian: It is entirely new...in either a catalog or a print. Sir ERNST GOMBRICH: That is so, yes. LIANE HANSEN...
- The big picture. (interview with art historian Ernst Gombrich)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Carrier, David February 1, 1996 700+ words
DAVID CARRIER TALKS WITH ERNST GOMBRICH I met Ernst Gombrich in London in 1973, after completing a doctoral thesis...methodologies of art history, by teaching The Story of Art. ERNST GOMBRICH: You are? I always worry a little as to what the...
- Look and learn.(art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 7, 1999 700+ words
``The Story of Art'' has sold 6m copies. At 90, Sir Ernst Gombrich is as vigorous as ever, and all his books are once again in print AT THE age of 90, E.H. Gombrich defies expectations. Most...
- Imagining the Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard...
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History JOHNSTON, W. ROSS March 1, 1998 700+ words
...Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University...39.95. Peter Beilharz sums up Bernard Smith as being "a major thinker in the history...American/local influences, and more. Bernard Smith appears in these pages as a polymath...
- Imagining the Antipodes: culture, theory and the visual in the work of Bernard...
- Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés January 1, 1999 700+ words
...Antipodes: Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith. Cambridge, New York et Melbourne, Cambridge University...Victoria), propose la premiere etude de l'oeuvre de Bernard Smith, professeur emerite (1978) d'histoire de l'art a l...
- Director claims CAS told: don't pay foster parents and rotate staff.(Child &...
- Magazine article from: Community Action January 24, 2005 700+ words
"It is a crying shame" Bruce Children's Aid Society Executive Director Bernard Smith wrote in a letter published in the Toronto Star. The Ontario government is failing to pickup $80 million for the 51 children...
- LETTER:Standing in the shadows of art
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Ms Caroline Hull June 1, 1995 700+ words
...Ms Caroline Hull Sir: Andrew Graham-Dixon accuses Sir Ernst Gombrich's "Shadows" exhibition of being a "series of rather...shadow, was not Mr Graham-Dixon's idea. It was Sir Ernst Gombrich's. Yours faithfully, CAROLINE HULL Cambridge 23 May
- Five world figures selected to receive Britannica Awards. (Encyclopaedia...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 21, 1989 700+ words
...diplomat George F. Kennan; and British art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich. The announcement was made at a news conference here by...of Western action in the decades after World War II. Sir Ernst Gombrich has been enormously influential in disseminating not only...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bernard Smith and the Formalesque.(Art)(The Formalesque: A Guide to...