Publications
2017
” Gombrich on Strzygowski“, Journal of Art Historiography, Number 17, December 2017
2015
“Gombrich” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 10, Editor(s): Dale C. Allison, Jr., Christine Helmer, Volker Leppin, Choon-Leong Seow, Hermann Spieckermann, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric J. Ziolkowski, De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston, 2015
Review: Paul Taylor, ed. Meditations on a Heritage: Papers on the Work and Legacy of Sir Ernst Gombrich, caa.reviews, January
2014
Reviews: “Leonardo: where does myth end and man begin?”, a review of The Lives of Leonardo, edited by Thomas Frangenberg and Rodney Palmer, The Warburg Institute – Nino Aragno Editore 2013, Cassone, April 2014, www.cassone-art.com
“What was the artist up to?”, a review of Daniel Arasse, Take a Closer Look, Princeton University Press 2013, Cassone, January 2014, www.cassone-art.com
2013
Seminar: “Ernst Gombrich. A Viennese Art historian in London“, 13 décembre – Transferts germano-britanniques en histoire de l’art – INHA Paris.
Interviews: Richard Woodfield fala do livro “Gombrich Essencial” e da atualidade do pensamento de Gombrich, Blouinartinfo.com, Brasil, 24 Fevereiro 2013
Editora Bookman lança simultaneamente três livros de E.H. Gombrich, O Estado de S. Paulo (Brazil), 24 Fevereiro 2013
Review: “The history of art history”, a review of Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard, The Books that Shaped Art History, Thames and Hudson 2012, Cassone, June 2013 www.cassone-art.com
2012
“Art and the Environment: Old argument, new issues”, ΧΡΟΝΙΚΑ ΑΙΣΘHΤΙΚΗΣ/ Annales d’Esthétique/ Annals for Aesthetics, 2010-2012, Τόμος/Vol B́, 51-60
Reviews:”Photographic delights” a review of Frederick N. Bohrer, Photography and Archaeology, Reaktion Books 2011, Cassone, July 2012 www.cassone-art.com
“The entertaining history of our planet” a review of E.H. Gombrich, A little history of the world, 2nd illustrated edition, Yale University Press 2011, Cassone, March 2012 www.cassone-art.com
Interview with Antonio Gonçalves Filho,” História da arte ao alcance de todos”, O Estado de S. Paulo (Brazil), 06 de outubro de 2012 link
2011
“Ernst Gombrich: Iconology and the ‘linguistics of the image'”, Journal of Art Historiography, Number 5, December 2011 5-RAW/1
“Ernst Gombrich and Max Dvořák”, ars [Journal of the Institute of Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences], 44, 2011, 1,125-138. A special issue on Max Dvořák.
Review: “An unfamiliar anthropology” a review of Hans Belting, An Anthropology of Images, Princeton University Press 2011, Cassone, December 2011 www.cassone-art.com
- 2010
- “Gombrich on the Renaissance: Period or Movement?” in Poreia: A Festschrift for Professor Dionysis A. Zivas, Athens: National Technical University of Athens – School of Architecture, 2007, 617-625
- Review: Warburg Institute Colloquia, ‘Iconography without Texts’, The Art Book, 17 (2), 42–43
- 2009
- Editorial for the first issue of the Journal of Art Historiography.
- “The 1721 English Treatise of Painting: a Masonic moment in the Culture of Newtonianism”, in Claire Farago (ed.), Re-reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe from 1550 to 1900, Burlington VT and Aldershot: Ashgate, 475-91
- Critique of the exhibition Mind Map, Mind the Gap: Fine artists’ responses to a collection of old Korean maps in Korean Wave in Nottingham, Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University, 15-16
- Paper: ‘Ernst Gombrich. Iconology and the “Linguistics of the Image”’, I saperi di Ernst Gombrich. Teoria del visibile e analisi dell’arte, Università Iuav di Venezia: Scuola di Dottorato, Venice 5-6 March
- Review: Claire Farago (ed.), ‘Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style’, The Art Book, 16 (4), 47–48
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- 2008
- “Kunstwissenschaft versus Ästhetik: The Historians’ Revolt against Aesthetics” in Francis Halsall and Julia Jansen, Re-Discovering Aesthetics, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 19-33
- “Gombrich and Panofsky on Iconology”, International Yearbook of Aesthetics, 12, 151-164
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- 2007
- “The Bookshelf”, CAANews, 32 (2) March, 13
- “Sanat ve Çevre: Eski Tartışma,Yeni Konular”, Sanat ve Çevre, Sanart: Ankara, 33-40
- “Boots D90 Do_u Projesi”, Sanat ve Bilim / Sanat ve Sosyal Adanmışlık, Art and Science / Art and Social Engagement, Sanart: Ankara, 157-161
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- 2006
- Participation in ‘The Art Seminar’ and Assessment in James Elkins (ed), Aesthetics versus Art History, Routledge: New York, London, 53-4, 80-1, 110-4
- Review: Thomas Heyd and John Clegg ‘Aesthetics and Rock Art’, caa.reviews
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- 2005
- “Gombrich” and “Podro” in Stuart Brown (ed.) Thoemmes Continuum Dictionary of 20th C British Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum: Bristol, 332-5, 793-4. Available at: https://www.bloomsburyphilosophers.com/home.
- “Representational Meaning” in Iwony Lorenc (ed.), Odłamki, Pozbitych, Luster: rozprawy z filozofii kultury sztuki I etsetyki ofiarowane Pani Profesor Alicji Kuczyńskiej, Uniwersytet Warszawski: Wydzial Filozofii I Socjologii, 275-286
- “Reflections on Writing the History of Aesthetics”, Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, 15 (1), 35- 41
- Reviews: Alois Riegl (trans. Jacqueline E. Jung, foreword Benjamin Binstock) ‘Historical Grammar of the Arts’, caa.reviews
- Michael Kelly (ed.) “Encyclopedia of Aesthetics”, Art Bulletin 83(3), 559-63 translated as “Una nueva enciclopedia de Estética” in Revisiones 01, 69-79
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- 2004
- “The UK Fine Art PhD and Research in Art & Design”, L&B (Lier en Boog) Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, 18, 103-8
- Papers: “The History of Art and the History of the Mind”, XVI International Congress of Aesthetics, Rio de Janeiro
- “Reflections on Writing the History of Aesthetics”, Second Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics, Sydney
- “Understanding Pictures: What Pictures Do”, Round Table on Realism in Pictures: the plasticity of representational systems, Adelaide
- ‘Are the arts elitist?’, Cultural conversation with Dominic Lopes, John Armstrong and Jennifer McMahon at The University of Adelaide Art and Heritage Collections
- Reviews: Philip Sohm “Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy”, British Journal of Aesthetics (BJA) 44(4), 441-444
- Philippe-Alain Michaud ‘Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion’, caa.reviews
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- 2003
- “Ernst Gombrich and the Idea of Human Nature”, Human Affairs: A Postdisciplinary Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences published by the Slovak Academy of Sciences 13 (2), 163-70
- “Aby Warburg” in Chris Murray (ed) Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, London and New York: Routledge, 262-9
- “Pictorial Experience” in Ananta Ch. Sukla (ed) Art and Experience, Westport: Praeger, 71-90
- “Gombrich’s 1955 Lecture to the British Psychological Society: ‘Art History and the Psychology of Perception’” in Paula Lizarraga (ed.) E.H. Gombrich: In memoriam, Pamplona: EUNSA (Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, S.A.), 167-184
- Paper: “The October Questionnaire: Riegl, Warburg and Gombrich”, Framing Art History: reflections on the discipline, ESF Conference, Edinburgh.
- Reviews: Chris Wood (ed.) “The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s”, caa.reviews
- Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger (eds.) “Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61(2), 201-3
- James Elkins “ Stories of Art ” , BJA 43(3), 336-338
- “Journal of Visual Art Practice Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2 and 3”, Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education 2 (1&2), 89-93
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- 2002
- “Gombrich and Psychology” in Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde (ed.)A Blackwell Companion to Art Theory, Blackwell: Oxford, 426-435
- “Aesthetics at the end of the Century: Dessoir’s Project” in Ipek Tureli (ed.) Retrospective: Aesthetics and Art in the 20th Century, Ankara, 81-86.
- “Some Reflections on Theatre Iconography” in Balme, Erenstein, Molinari, Bulzoni (ed.) European Theatre Iconography, Editore: Roma, 49-64
- Papers: “Gombrich’s 1955 Lecture to the British Psychological Society: ‘Art History and the Psychology of Perception'”, en el Congreso E.H. Gombrich (Viena 1909 – Londrea 2001). Teoria e Historia del Arte
- ‘Art in a Corporate Context: Contemporary Art at Boots the Chemist’, Art and Social Engagement: International Symposium, Workshops and Art Events May 1-3, 2002 Middle East Technical University, Ankara – Turkey
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- 2001
- Books: Art History as Cultural History: Warburg’s Projects. Commentary by Richard Woodfield, G+B Arts International Inc: Amsterdam in its series Critical Voices.
- Framing Formalism: Riegl’s Work. Commentary by Richard Woodfield, G+B Arts International Inc: Amsterdam in its series Critical Voices. Now available (2013) as an ebook.
- Guest edited Point 12: Framing the Future (Research Journal for CHEAD) and the Yearbook of the International Association of Aesthetics.
- Papers: “Aesthetics at the End of the Century: Dessoir’s Project”, 15th International Congress on Aesthetics, Makuhari, Japan published in The Great Book of Aesthetics: The 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, Japan 2001, The University of Tokyo
- “Ernst Gombrich’s contributions to Kritische Berichte“, Colloquium on Art History and the German Philosophical Tradition, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
- “Aesthetics at the End of the Century: Dessoir’s Project”, SANART Symposium Retrospective: Aesthetics and Art in the 20th Century, Ankara
- Reviews: Francis Ames-Lewis “The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist”, BJA 42(1), 86-8
- Michael Kelly (ed.) “Encyclopedia of Aesthetics”, Art Bulletin 83(3), 559-63
- Ellen Dissanayake “Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began”, BJA 41(3), 343-5
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- 2000
- “Gombrich on Style and Culture”, The Misulsa Hakbo (Korean Art History Review) Special Issue: Art History of Eastern Asia: Issues and Perspectives, 14 (September), 23- 44 & 45- 57 (in Korean)
- “Style and Nationality”, Art, Life, Culture: 2000 International Association for Aesthetics Executive Committee Meeting and Colloquium, Korean Society for Aesthetics & Institute for Arts and Culture, College of Humanities, Seoul National University, 31- 46
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- 1999
- Book: Ernst Gombrich, Dal mio tempo: Città, maestri, incontri, a cura di Richard Woodfield, Einaudi: Torino 1999.
- “Photography and the Imagination”, Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress on Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Filozofski Vestnik XX (2), 271-8
- Paper:”Gombrich’s Kunstwissenschaft: The use of art for the study of the mind”, guest speaker at the annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, Hanover
- Inaugural Lecture: “The Daedalus Project: Art, Science and Technology in the Western European Tradition”, Nottingham Trent University, February
- Reviews: James Elkins “On Pictures and Words that Fail Them”, American Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57(4), 471-3
- Bjarne Sode Funch “The Psychology of Art Appreciation”, BJA 39(2), 207-8
- John Willats “Art and Representation: New Principles in the Analysis of Pictures”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57(1), 99-100
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- 1998
- Paper: “Photography and Imagination”, XIVth International Congress on Aesthetics, Ljubljana
- “Art and Evidence”, ESF Network Conference on Theatre Iconography: Identification and interpretation of images, Mainz
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- 1997
- “Gombrich e la Semiotica”, in La polifonia estetica: Specificità e raccordi, a cura di Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Guerini Studio: Milan, 15-25
- Papers: “History of Art and the Psychology of Picture Perception”, University of Copenhagen, December
- “Art and the Environment”, SANART Conference and Exhibition, Ankara, October
- “Valuing Primitive Art: Danto and Gombrich”, Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Oslo, May
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- 1996
- Book: The Essential Gombrich, Phaidon Press: London (Portuguese translation Gombrich essencial: textos selecionados arte e cultura, Bookman Editora Ltda: São Paulo 2012; Polish translation Ernst H. Gombrich – Pisma o sztuce i kulturze, Universitas: Kraków 2011; Italian translation Gombrich: Un’Anthologia di Scritti Essenziali sull’Arte e la Cultura, Phaidon Press: London 2003; German translation Das Gombrich Lesebuch, Phaidon Press: Berlin 2003; French translation Gombrich L’Essentiel, Phaidon Press: Paris 2003; Italian translation Sentieri verso l’arte: I testi chiave di Ernst H. Gombrich, Leonardo Arte: Milano 1997; Spanish translation, Gombrich Esencial: Textos Escogidos Sobre Arte y Cultura, Debate: Madrid 1997)
- Gombrich on Art and Psychology, Manchester University Press: Manchester
- Articles: Gombrich on Perception and Mental Set”, Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift, 16, 65-75
- “Form, Expression and the Photograph” in a special issue of Interface: Bradford Studies in Language, Culture and Society: The World, The Image and Aesthetic Experience – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Perception and Understanding, pp. 263-84 also published in Polish by the Aesthetics Department of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow
- Papers: “Gombrich’s Project”, University of East Anglia World Art Research Seminar
- “Virtual Reality, Videogames and The Story of Art”, Oxford University Department of Art History
- “Gombrich on Semiotics and Psychology”, Annual Conference of the Nordic Association of Aesthetics, Lund
- “Images coming to life: Art and Ontology”, Conference on Virtual Reality, Beeld & Universiteit, Brussels
- Reviews: “Sheldon Richmond’s Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi”, Canadian Philosophical Review, March 1996), 50-1
- “Gombrich’s Story of Art”, BJA, Summer 1996, 313-6
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- 1995
- “The Reception of the Vienna School of Art History” in Austrian Exodus: The Creative Achievements of Refugees from National Socialism, Austrian Studies 6, 169-75
- “Tradition and Bildung” in English and Greek in the Greek journal Annales d’Esthétique, 34, 173-81
- Papers: “Gombrich on Psychology and Semiotics”, International Guest Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Aesthetics
- “Contemporary Photographic Education in an International Perspective”, Vevey, Switzerland
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- 1994
- “Expression, Form and Kunstwissenschaft” in Aesthetic Matters: Essays presented to Göran Sörbom on his 60th birthday ed. Lars-Olof Åhlberg and Tommie Zain, Uppsala University: Uppsala 1994, 154-163
- “Gombrich on Art, Style and Culture”, Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift, 12, 79-94
- “Gombrich, Formalism and the Description of Works of Art”, BJA, 34 (2), 134-45.
- Papers: “Gombrich on Style and Culture”, Vintermote held at the Department of Aesthetics, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- “On Contemporary British Aesthetics”, Slovakian Society of Aesthetics, Bratislava, Slovakia
- “Wittgenstein and Popper on Aesthetics”, Annual conference of the Hungarian Association of Aesthetics
- “Tradition and Bildung“, Joint meeting of the Hellenic and British Societies of Aesthetics, in Athens
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- 1993
- Papers: “On Form and Expression in the Photograph”, Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Society of Aesthetics.
- “On theoretical approaches to Photography” and “Gombrich on Style and Culture”, Research Seminar of the Department of Aesthetics at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow
- “On Semiotics and the Photograph” to the Research Seminar of the Swire School of Design, Hong Kong
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- 1992
- “Resemblance” in A Companion to Aesthetics: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy ed D. Cooper, Blackwell: Oxford, 369-372
- “Gombrich, formalism and the description of works of art”, Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Formalism held by the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May, 2, 119-131
- “Bill Brandt”, in Danish and English, in the Danish journal Katalog: Kvartalstidsskrift for Fotografi, 4(3), Marts, 3-11
- Paper: “Gombrich, formalism and the description of works of art”, International Colloquium on Formalism held by the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- 1991
- Guest edited a special issue of the American Studies journal Over Here: An American Studies Journal on post war American art and criticism 11(2)
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- 1990
- Edited the Papers of the XIth International Congress on Aesthetics, published Nottingham Trent Polytechnic Press
- “The Institutional Theory of Art”, in Russian, in the Moscow art journal Iskusstvo, 46-49
- Paper: Presentation on the creation of a network of European scholars in aesthetics at a conference in Siena published as “The European Aesthetics Network” in Le Grandi Correnti dell’Estetica Novecentesca ed. Gracia Marchiano, Guerini Studio: Milan 1991, pp. 261-263
- Review: John Hyman, “The Imitation of Nature”, BJA 30(3), 280-2
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- 1989
- “L’effet du réel: an alternative account” in a special issue of the Polish philosophy journal Dialectics and Humanism edited by Harold Osborne
- Paper: “Rewriting Symbolism: Towards a Critique of Semiotics”, Birmingham Polytechnic Postgraduate Seminar
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- 1988
- “Peetz and Wollheim on Gombrich’s illusions”, BJA 28(3), 278-80
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- 1987
- Book: Reflections on the History of Art by E H Gombrich, Phaidon: Oxford (French translation Réflexions sur l’histoire de l’art, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon: Nîmes 1991; Italian translation Riflessioni sulla storia dell’arte, Einaudi: Torino 1991; German translation Kunst und Kritik, Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart 1993)
- Paper: “Art in the Service of History – The Guardian on Modernism and Post-Modernism”, Over Here: An American Studies Journal 7(1), 1-11
- Review: Wolfgang Haug, “Critique of Commodity Aesthetics”, BJA 27(4), 377-8
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- 1986
- “Words and Pictures”, BJA 26(4), 357-70
- Review: Moshe Barasch, “Theories of Art from Plato to Winckelmann”, BJA 26(4), 395-6
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- 1985
- Guest edited Harold Osborne’s festschrift, a special issue of the BJA 25(2)
- “Some Notes on Roland Barthes’ Photographic Message”, Trent Occasional Papers in Photography
- “Gombrich on Language and Meaning”, BJA 25(4), 389-93
- Paper: “Words and Pictures”, British Society of Aesthetics Conference
- Review: Norman Peterson, “Photographic Art: Media and Disclosure”, BJA 25(3), 292-3
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- 1984
- Paper: “On H R Jauss’s Art History and Pragmatic History” Nottingham University Staff Critical Theory Seminar
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- 1983
- Paper: “Walter Benjamin on the Mechanical Reproduction of Works of Art”, Nottingham University Staff Critical Theory Seminar
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- 1982
- Paper: “Towards a new Photographic History”, Birmingham Polytechnic Postgraduate Seminar
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- 1981
- Reviews: Ernst Buschor, “On the Meaning of Greek Statues”, BJA 21(2), 175-6
- Rose-Carol Washton Long, “Kandinsky”, BJA 21(4), 380-81
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- 1980
- “Thomas Hobbes and the Formation of Aesthetics in England”, BJA 20(2), 146-52
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- 1978
- “On the Emergence of Aesthetics”, BJA 18(3), 217-227
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- 1977
- Review: Rudolph Makkreel, “Dilthey Philosopher of the Human Sciences”, BJA 17(3), 282-3
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- 1976
- Review: Göran Hermeren, “Influence in Art and Literature”, BJA 16(4), 376-7
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- 1975
- Books: (ed.) Winckelmann’s Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks , with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston
- (ed.) Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty, with a revised introduction, Scolar Press: Menston (reprinted Olms, 2002)
- “The Freedom of Shaftsbury’s Classicism”, BJA 15(3), 254-66
- Paper: “On the Emergence of Aesthetics”, Nottingham University Society of Philosophical Aesthetics
- Review: F.J.W. Harding, “Jean-Marie Guyau”, BJA 15(2), 179-180
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- 1973
- “Winckelmann and the Abbé du Bos”, BJA 13(3), 271-5
- Reviews: David Irwin, “Winckelmann, Writings on Art”, BJA 13(1), 86-7
- JP Hodin, “Eduard Munch”, BJA 13(3), 89
- Donald Posner, “Annibale Carracci”, BJA 13(3), 309-10
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- 1972
- Books: (ed.) Richardson’s Two Discourses, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston
- “Hobbes on the Laws of Nature and the Atheist”, Renaissance and Modern Studies
- Paper: “Neoclassical Art Theory”, British Society of Aesthetics, London
- Reviews: Michael Baxandall, “Giotto and the Orators”, BJA 12(2), 199-200
- John Adkins Richardson, “Modern Art and Scientific Thought”, BJA 12(3), 303-4
- Ferenc Tokei, “Genre Theory in China”, BJA 12(3), 305-6
- Anita Brookner, “The Genius of the Future”, BJA 12(4), 408-9
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- 1971
- Books: (ed.) Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty, with introduction, Scolar Press Menston
- (ed.) Richardson’s An Essay on the Theory of Painting, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston
- (ed.) Reynolds’ Seven Discourses, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston
- Paper: “Mannerist Art Theory”, British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, London , abstract BJA 12(2), 118-9
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- 1970
- Book: (ed.) Dolce’s Aretin: A Dialogue on Painting, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston
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- 1968
- Paper: “The Idea of a Social Contract”, Nottingham University Staff Philosophy Seminar
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- 1967
- Paper: “Desiring a thing and calling it ‘good'”, Nottingham University Staff Philosophy Seminar