‘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This Italian edition of a collection of essays (hitherto unpublished in Italian) by E.H. Gombrich allows us to rethink the connection between words and pictures from a sensibly different perspective from the discussions of the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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description | This Italian edition of a collection of essays (hitherto unpublished in Italian) by E.H. Gombrich allows us to rethink the connection between words and pictures from a sensibly different perspective from the discussions of the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 the now prevailing visual code and the verbal one, nor on the pictorial and iconic turns: Gombrich invites us to re-examine this relationship starting from history and art history. In Italy, this perspective has remained marginal until the emergence of “micro-history” in art, accompanied by a series of exhibitions that focused no longer on the artist but rather on the context. A perspective that deserves to be rediscovered… |
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spelling | doaj.art-9b3edbf6d6244fc5ba0aa0e6e8a1055a2022-12-21T20:36:10ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522019-12-012121GB1‘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Biasiori, RomGiuseppe Barbieri0Ca’ Foscari University of VeniceThis Italian edition of a collection of essays (hitherto unpublished in Italian) by E.H. Gombrich allows us to rethink the connection between words and pictures from a sensibly different perspective from the discussions of the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 the now prevailing visual code and the verbal one, nor on the pictorial and iconic turns: Gombrich invites us to re-examine this relationship starting from history and art history. In Italy, this perspective has remained marginal until the emergence of “micro-history” in art, accompanied by a series of exhibitions that focused no longer on the artist but rather on the context. A perspective that deserves to be rediscovered…https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/barbieri-rev.pdfe.h. gombrichinterdisciplinarityfocus on contextwords and picturesvisual syntax |
spellingShingle | Giuseppe Barbieri ‘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 Journal of Art Historiography e.h. gombrich interdisciplinarity focus on context words and pictures visual syntax |
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 |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘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_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 |
title_sort | 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 |
topic | e.h. gombrich interdisciplinarity focus on context words and pictures visual syntax |
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