Form of Thought and Presentational Gesture in Karl Popper and E. H. Gombrich

• Authors: Norbert Schneider
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with common elements and differences in Popper and Gombrich, especially concerning their forms of thought and presentational gesture. Among others it considers the model of common sense which was basal for both of them as well as the similarities of searchlight theory (Popper) and some postulates of Gestalt psychology (Gombrich). At the end it analyses their approaches to historiography with special focusing on Gombrich's comments on the concept of social history of art.

Keywords

EN

criterion of simplicity; searchlight theory; compositional schemas; Viennese School; social history of art

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 251-258

Dates

published

2009-09-01

online

2009-09-24

Contributors

author

Norbert Schneider

• Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Karlsruhe, Englerstraße 7 D-76131 Karlsruhe

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-009-0038-4