John Onians
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British art historian
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John Onians's Degrees
- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- Masters Classics University of Oxford
- PhD Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John B Onians, FSA 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.
John Onians's Published Works
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- "Bearers of Meaning. The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance", John Onians, Princeton 1988 : [recenzja] / Anna Kilian. (1993) (124)
- ABSTRACTION AND IMAGINATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY (1980) (122)
- Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture (1500–1900) (1981) (93)
- Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki (2008) (44)
- Bearers of Meaning (1990) (40)
- World art studies and the need for a new natural history of art (1996) (25)
- Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age: the Greek World View 350-50 B.C (1981) (23)
- THE ORIGINS OF ART (1978) (22)
- Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome (2000) (22)
- On Picturing a Candle: The Prehistory of Imagery Science (2016) (21)
- Architecture, metaphor and the mind (1992) (15)
- Rethinking the canon (1996) (15)
- Atlas of World Art (2004) (15)
- The Eye's mind – Visual imagination, neuroscience and the humanities (2018) (14)
- BRUNELLESCHI: HUMANIST OR NATIONALIST? (1982) (13)
- Compression vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art (2007) (13)
- Sight & insight : essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85 (1994) (9)
- Neuroarchaeology and the Origins of Representation in the Grotte de Chauvet: a Neural Approach to Archaeology (2007) (9)
- Alberti and ΦΙΛΑΡΕΤΗ: A Study in Their Sources (1971) (8)
- The Art Atlas (2008) (6)
- The Role of Experiential Knowledge in the Ultimate Design Studio: The Brain (2011) (6)
- ON HOW TO LISTEN TO HIGH RENAISSANCE ART (1984) (5)
- Neuroarthistory: Reuniting Ancient Traditions in a New Scientific Approach to the Understanding of Art (2011) (4)
- The Greek Temple and the Greek brain (2002) (4)
- War, Mathematics, and Art in Ancient Greece (1989) (4)
- Art, the visual imagination and neuroscience: The Chauvet Cave, Mona Lisa's smile and Michelangelo's terribilitá (2017) (4)
- Idea and Product: Potter and Philosopher in Classical Athens (1991) (4)
- European Art: A Neuroarthistory (2016) (4)
- World art: Ways Forward, and a way to escape the ‘autonomy of culture’ delusion (2011) (3)
- John Onians. Review of "Is Art History Global?" by James Elkins. (2008) (1)
- Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure (2015) (1)
- Atlas of World Art@@@Toward a Geography of Art (2004) (1)
- AN INVITATION TO ANSWER BACK (1987) (1)
- Plural Imagination: Diversity in Mind and Making (2022) (0)
- 10. Editing In vs. Editing Out: World Art Studies and the Pathologies of Academe (2008) (0)
- Michael David Kighley Baxandall 1933–2008 (2011) (0)
- LETTERS TO AND FROM THE EDITOR (1988) (0)
- Foreword (2010) (0)
- Architecture and painting: the biological connection (2002) (0)
- 2. The Other Hippocampus: Neuroscience and Early Christian Art (2018) (0)
- Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder (2015) (0)
- Gombrich and biology (2003) (0)
- The Distinctive Creativity of Leonardo and Michelangelo (2019) (0)
- The natural origins of Greek art and culture, Greek landscape and the Greek brain (2014) (0)
- Alberti and the Neuropsychology of Style (2001) (0)
- Reviews : Stephen Bann, The True Vine: on visual representation and the western tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. £35.00 (1992) (0)
- Review Notices : Architecture in Italy 1400-1600. By Ludwig H. Heydenreich and Wolfgang Lotz. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, 1974. 432 pp, 360 plates. £14 (1976) (0)
- Art History and Memory, From the Couch to the Scanner: On How the New Art History Woke Up to a Neural Future (2017) (0)
- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics (2019) (0)
- Bombrich and biology (2003) (0)
- Extended Imagining: the case of the aphantasic artist (2020) (0)
- Sir Ernst’s last laugh: How the New Art Historians came to see the importance of nature and the brain (2018) (0)
- Review: Pythagorean Palaces. Magic and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance by George L. Hersey (1978) (0)
- The ‘masterpiece’: a social or neural phenomenon? (2016) (0)
- IN REVIEW: PAUL BAROLSKY, MICHELANGELO'S NOSE (1991) (0)
- Books Received (1994) (0)
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