E.H. Gombrich Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art historical literature, this book reflects the vast knowledge, insights, and expertise of one of this century's greatest art historians and thinkers. Extensively illustrated, it treats the history of art -- both chronologically and geographically -- as a continuous unfolding story. Offers a vivid, enthusiastic, and interpretive narrative written in direct, straightforward language with technical terms always explained when they are introduced. KEY TOPICS: Focuses on the most significant works of Western art. Considers each work of art in its context: shows how art reflects the historical setting, the artist's intentions, and the values of that civilization, and how each artist built upon, or sometimes reacted against, the style of his/her predecessors. Contains chronological charts, maps, and notes on art books. Illustrates all works that are discussed. Features a new design with each illustration appearing on the same spread as the narrative that discusses it.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and <i>Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser </i>was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. <i>A Little History of the World </i>presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.

Ernst H. Gombrich, einem der herausragendsten Gelehrten des 20. Jahrhunderts, gelang, was heute unglaublich erscheint: auf wenigem Raum die Geschichte der Menschheit prägnant und überzeugend zu schildern. Eine bis heute nicht erreichte und schon gar nicht überholte Leistung dieses großen Mannes. In seiner ebenso leichten wie bildreichen Sprache veranschaulicht er Entwicklungen und Zeitenwenden und charakterisiert Persönlichkeiten und Auseinandersetzungen so lebendig, dass seine Schilderungen den Hörer das große und komplexe Geschehen in einem Zug erfassen lassen. (5 CDs, 342 Minuten)

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La storia dell'arte è un'opera scritta da Ernst Gombrich alla fine degli anni '40, concepita per giovani lettori senza conoscenze pregresse e che abbraccia tutte le culture dalla preistoria ai giorni nostri. Nonostante le sue intenzioni pedagogiche, non si tratta di un noioso lessico giovanile. Gombrich evita il gergo tecnico e affronta temi complessi in modo semplice e visivo, rendendo la sua passione contagiosa. Così, il libro si trasforma in un'opera per lettori di tutte le età, ricca di intelligenza e umorismo. Pubblicato nel 1950, ha superato ogni aspettativa, ricevendo elogi dalla critica e venendo tradotto in molte lingue. Pur subendo nel tempo piccole modifiche, il nucleo del testo è rimasto invariato. A distanza di un mezzo secolo dalla prima edizione, continua a essere un'affascinante introduzione alla storia dell'arte e un ideale strumento di consultazione.

In this second volume of his classic essays on the Renaissance, E H Gombrich focuses on a theme of central importance: visual symbolism. He opens with a searching introduction ('The Aims and Limits of Iconology'), and follows with detailed studies of Botticelli, Mantegna, Raphael, Poussin and others. The volume concludes with an extended study of the philosophies of symbolism, demonstrating that the ideas which preoccupied the philosophers of the Renaissance are still very much alive today.Like its predecessor, Norm and Form, this volume is indispensable for all students of Renaissance art and thought as a work that has itself helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history. Reflecting the author's abiding concern with standards, values and problems of method, it also has a wider interest as an introduction to the fundamental questions involved in the interpretation of images.

ed. by W. Steiner