Global Culture after Gombrich

Cao Yiqiang is the director of the School of Arts and Humanities at China Academy of Art. His research focuses on the construction of Chinese Art History, and the relationships between art and ideology, image and history, and international exchange.John Onians is Professor Emeritus of World Art at the University of East Anglia, UK. Founder Editor of the journal Art History in 1978, his work has been instrumental in exploring the biological basis of art and establishing Neuroarthistory as a distinct set of methodologies.Nicolas Penny is an art historian and former director of the National Gallery in London. He has held several professorships at Oxford University, UK and was senior curator of sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. , USA.Matthew MacKisack is an art historian and writer who has held research fellowships at the University of Exeter Medical School and China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. He has written widely on the relationships between modernity, artistic practice, and the mind.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceJohn Onians, Nicolas Penny and Cao Yiqiang IntroductionCao Yiqiang ART1. Doodling With Ernst GombrichWilliam H. Sherman 2. Caricature as ‘The Language of Things’Sybille Moser-Ernst 3. Dorothea Beside AriadneNicolas Penny MIND4. The Idea of Culture: Rise, Fall, RevivalPeter Burke 5. Seeing the Mind: How a Knowledge of the Brain Can Help Us to Rewrite the History of CultureJohn Onians 6. Pictorial Art and Global Psychological ModernityWhitney Davis WORLD7. Art History in a Global Perspective, A Modest Proposal, Once AgainCarlo Ginzberg 8. Gombrich, Vasari and the Modernist CanonPartha Mitter 9. Art and Intelligence: Reflections on Gomrich’s Observation, ‘Art Historians Talk About Everything Except Art’Cao Yiqiang AFTERWORD10. What China Meant to Ernst H. GombrichLeonie Gombrich 11. Gombrich and China: a Mutual DiscoveryCao Yiqiang Notes on Contributors Index