‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom

This Italian edition of a collection of essays (hitherto unpublished in Italian) by E.H. Gombrich allows us to rethink the connection between words and pictures from a sensibly different perspective from the discussions of the early 2000s. The focus is neither on the insurmountable conflict between...

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Main Author: Giuseppe Barbieri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2019-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/barbieri-rev.pdf
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‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom
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title ‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom
title_full ‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom
title_fullStr ‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom
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title_short ‘Immagini e parole: a new Italian collection of essays by E.H. Gombrich, brings a significant contribution to a seventy-year long debate in Italy and abroad’. Review of: Immagini e parole by Ernst H. Gombrich, edited by Lucio Biasiori, Rom
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