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E. H. Gombrich (1909–2001)

Autor(a) de The Story of Art

80+ Works 11,243 Membros 112 Críticas 15 Favorited

About the Author

Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, born March 30, 1909, in Vienna, Austria, was educated at Vienna University where he earned a Ph.D. His career includes terms as Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and as Andrew D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. Gombrich's mostrar mais books on art and art history have sold as well as some works of fiction. One of his most popular titles is The Story of Art, which has been translated into 18 languages and sold more than two million copies. Other titles are; Looking for Answers: Conversations on Art and Science (with Didier Eribon), Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, and Gombrich on Art and Psychology. His numerous awards include the Erasmus Prize in 1975, the Hegel Prize in 1976, and the International Balzan Prize in 1985. He holds honorary degrees from various universities, among them Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, and from the Royal College of Art (London), 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por E. H. Gombrich

The Story of Art (1950) 4,724 exemplares
A Little History of the World (1936) 3,498 exemplares
Norm and Form (1966) 164 exemplares
Symbolic Images (1972) 147 exemplares
Art, Perception, and Reality (1972) 121 exemplares
The Essential Gombrich (1996) 108 exemplares
The Heritage of Apelles (1892) 77 exemplares
The Uses of Images (1999) 77 exemplares
New Light On Old Masters (1986) 70 exemplares
Caricature (1940) 38 exemplares
In Search of Cultural History (1969) 38 exemplares
Topics of Our Time (1991) 30 exemplares
Freud e la psicologia dell'arte (1971) 24 exemplares
La evidencia de las imágenes (2014) 6 exemplares
A.Games: Sixty Years of Design (1990) 4 exemplares
Kunst und Kritik (1993) 3 exemplares
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1978) 3 exemplares
Gombrich on Shadows [VHS] (1995) 2 exemplares
Image and code (1981) 2 exemplares
Kunst og billedsprog (1979) 2 exemplares
Reneszánsz tanulmányok (1985) 2 exemplares
ı ı ð ø ʻ (1998) 1 exemplar
Bild und Auge 1 exemplar
The Cartoonist's Armory (1963) 1 exemplar
Før - nu 1 exemplar
Gombrich Ernst 1 exemplar
Autobiografia 1 exemplar
Occasions 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Open Society and Its Enemies (1962) — Contribuidor, algumas edições895 exemplares
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contribuidor, algumas edições400 exemplares
Art History and Its Methods: A Critical Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
Illusion in Nature and Art (1973) — Contribuidor — 45 exemplares
Heritage of Images: A Selection of Lectures (1970) — Introdução — 24 exemplares
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef
Outros nomes
Gombrich, Prof. Sir Ernst
Data de nascimento
1909-03-30
Data de falecimento
2001-11-03
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Austria-Hungary (birth)
UK (naturalize citizenship|1947)
País (no mapa)
UK
Local de nascimento
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Local de falecimento
London, England, UK
Locais de residência
Vienna, Austria
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Educação
Theresianum (Vienna)
University of Vienna (Ph.D|1933)
Ocupações
art historian
Director of the Warburg Institute (1959-1976)
professor (1959-1972)
Relações
Gombrich, Richard F. (son)
Gombrich, Ilse Heller (wife)
Gombrich, Leonie (kleindochter)
Organizações
Warburg Institute, University of London (staff|1936|director and professor of the history of the classical tradition|1959|retired|1976)
Prémios e menções honrosas
British Academy (fellow | 1960)
W. H. Smith Prize for Literature (1964)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1966)
Knight Bachelor of the British Empire (1972)
Erasmus Prize (1975)
Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1st class | 1975) (mostrar todos 20)
Hegel Prize (1976)
Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste (1977)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1985)
Balzan Prize for History of Western Art (1985)
City of Vienna (Prize for Humanities | 1986 | gold medal | 1994)
Order of Merit (1988)
Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize (1988)
Goethe Prize (1994)
Leverhulme Medal (2002)
Royal Society of Literature
Society of Antiquaries (fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964)
American Philosophical Society (1968)
Pour le Mérite (1977)

Membros

Críticas

This is a great book on art history ....though now somewhat dated. I'm now in the position of having to downsize my library and this book is one of the casualties. Pity but I won't be using it. I give it two stars.
 
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booktsunami | 35 outras críticas | Jan 18, 2024 |
Hardly a history of the world (mostly Europe really), but definitely a good starting point for future reading (precisely what I was looking for). The writing is intended for children, so it is a bit strange.
Ends after World War I.
 
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MXMLLN | 59 outras críticas | Jan 12, 2024 |
A small masterpiece, and probably the best thing going for enlightening young and/or struggling readers on the essential connections in the history of the world.
 
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Mark_Feltskog | 59 outras críticas | Dec 23, 2023 |
This gives a pretty good overview of world history, though it did seem to primarily center on Europe.

And though it was written for children, I thought some of the battles/wars and the people involved in them were described in too much detail considering this was an attempt to cover the entire history of the world... these bits became quite tedious for me, and I'm an adult.

Gombrich treats all religions as equal, which is good for a secular history book, but because of that, I wouldn't just give this to any child to read on their own without discussing the content with them. (Also, the earth is described as being millions/billions of years old.)

However, I did mostly like it and learned a few things myself, particularly where certain sayings have come from.

"...people change their opinions without even noticing. And then all of a sudden they become aware of it... Then they announce with pride: 'We are the new age.' And they often add: 'People used to be so stupid!'" p 163 (How true!)
… (mais)
 
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RachelRachelRachel | 59 outras críticas | Nov 21, 2023 |

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Obras
80
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Membros
11,243
Popularidade
#2,097
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
112
ISBN
443
Línguas
23
Marcado como favorito
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