John Onians

John Onians, FSA (born 1942) is Professor Emeritus of World Art at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and specialised in architecture, especially the architectural theory of the Italian Renaissance; painting, sculpture and architecture in Ancient Greece and Rome; Byzantine art, material culture, metaphor and thought; perception and cognition, and the biological basis of art. His recent work has been instrumental in the establishment of Neuroarthistory as a distinct set of methodologies.

He is the son of the distinguished classicist, Richard Broxton Onians.

Early life and education

Onians is graduate of the University of Cambridge, and of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Warburg Institutes of the University of London, at the latter of which he was a PhD student in History of Art, of Ernst Gombrich. He had also received postgraduate diploma in the History of European Art from London University.[1]

Career

He was Founder Editor of the journal Art History in 1978. He was professor of Visual Arts and Director of the World Art Research Programme at the University of East Anglia [1] from 1971 until his retirement in 2007 where he was instrumental in the development of the Art History department, and the creation of the School of World Art Studies and Museology.

He has authored four books Art and the Thought in the Hellenistic Age,[2] Bearers of Meaning,[3] Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome,[4] and Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki (2008).[5] He has edited Sight and Insight,[6] Atlas of World Art,[7] and Compression Vs. Expression.[8]

Onians has been discussed in books such as Art History and its Methods (1995)[9] and Raising the Eyebrow (2002).[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "John Onians: CV". Global Art Museum.
  2. ↑ Onians, J. (1979) Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age: Greek World View, 350-5 B.C. (Paperback) Thames & Hudson Ltd
  3. ↑ Onians, J. (1990) Bearers of Meaning: Classical orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Princeton University Press; New Ed edition (1 July 1992)
  4. ↑ Onians, J. (1999) Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome Yale University Press
  5. ↑ Onians, J. (2008) Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki Yale University Press
  6. ↑ Onians, J. (Ed.) (1994) Sight and Insight: Essays on Art and Culture in Honour of E.H.Gombrich at 85 Phaidon Press Ltd
  7. ↑ Onians, J. (Ed.) (2004) Atlas of World Art Laurence King Publishing
  8. ↑ Onians, J. (Ed.) (2006) Compression Vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts) Yale University Press
  9. ↑ Fernie, E. (1995) Art History and its Methods: A Critical Anthology Phaidon
  10. ↑ Golden, L. (Ed.) (2002)Raising the Eyebrow: John Onians and World Art Studies

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