Overview

This double Festschrift honours the distinguished careers and academic accomplishment of art historians Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians, as well as their shared life as a married couple on the occasion of the 55th wedding anniversary. Their intellectual paths together and individually have led to unexplored territories extending their discipline and leaving a profound impact on those who have encountered them. We have chosen to felicitate Elisabeth and John together in a book that is personal, creative, and visually engaging. This book offers a platform for the many people who have accompanied them on their journeys, whether for brief moments or across decades and is honoured by contributors from diverse fields, including practising artists, fellow art historians and former students, colleagues from other professions, as well as friends. Since this is a volume for married couple, some chapters are in pairs or jointly authored. The first section of the book features artworks that resonate with the lives and work and is including paintings, drawings, photography, poetry, fiction and travel writing. The second section presents personal and professional accounts of the roles of Elisabeth and John as teachers, colleagues, scholars, and friends. Some recall first encounters, others collaborations, memorable events, visits, travels and conversations. The third section compiles scholarly articles of traditional Festschrift fare. Here are saluted the theoretical approaches Elisabeth and John have innovated and their influence: the World Art Studies so closely connected to the University of East Anglia, Elisabeth’s geography of art and John’s neuroarthistory.

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Author:   Gyöngyvér Horváth ,  Isabelle Onians
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress
Edition:   Multilingual edition
Weight:   1.422kg
ISBN:  

9781803279756

ISBN 10:   1803279753
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   Dutch; Flemish, English, French, German

Table of Contents

Editors’ introduction Part I 1. A visual homage to the clay stoves in drokpa black tents in Tibet – Diane Barker 2. An evening with John Onians and Elisabeth de Bièvre at the Tchorek-Bentall Studio, Smolna 36, Warszawa, May 2011 – Katy Bentall 3. Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians – Eric Fernie and Lorraine Fernie 4. The road to the south – Barbara Hyde 5. Holland v England / Things you learn at UEA – Will Kemp 6. The ballad of John and Diccon – Diccon Masterman 7. I’d love… / Only a few steps – Robert Short Tutto intorno – Stephanie Morin 8. Wheels – Juliet Wimhurst 9. Towards the art of writing about art – Nazneen Zafar The Bees and Buds – Hubert Decleer Part II 10. Tea in Bowthorpe or Mariusz’ architecture – Elisabeth de Bièvre 11. Our first encounter with the Onians – Shareen Blair Brysac 12. D’une génération à l’autre, une amitié de plus de 60 ans! – Blandine Bril 13. Embracing diversity: Elisabeth de Bièvre and John Onians in China – Yiqiang Cao 14. On John Onians’s 80th birthday. Remembering his contribution to the Clark Art Institute as founding director of its research and academic program 1997–99 – Michael Conforti 15. Jumping the frame: eco-stylistics from Norwich – Wilfried van Damme 16. Loyalty – David Freedberg 17. Calmes blocs – Daniela Gallo and Philippe Sénéchal 18. The enlightened house – Derek Gillman and Yael Hirsch 19. Outstanding analyses of architecture: Bearers of Meaning, 1988 – Maria Fabricius Hansen 20. The indefinite object – Edward S. Harwood and Joanne Pillsbury 21. ‘Neither trendy nor traditional’: John Onians at the Clark – Charles ‘Mark’ W. Haxthausen 22. Hakuju or White Age Celebration – Harume Hayashi 23. John and Elisabeth – Mary Hollingsworth 24. The story of my PhD with John and Elisabeth – Gyöngyvér Horváth 25. Elisabeth de Bièvre – Maura Kehoe Collins 26. Woman Descending the Staircase: synchronicity, chance and mystery – Jetty Keuning and Jan Eric Visser 27. On John Onians, with thanks – Matthew MacKisack 28. Publishing de Bièvre, E., and Onians, J. – Gillian Malpass 29. Elisabeth and John – Marie-Anne van der Marck 30. The Groves of Norwich – 43 Grove Terrace – Stefan Muthesius 31. An inquisitive irreverence – Keith Roberts 32. ‘The Ubiquity of Aesthetics,’ ALCS Postgraduate Colloquium – Adam Sammut 33. De wijk en de wereld: a marriage for the universe – Gary Schwartz and Loekie Schwartz 34. Visiting with John and Elisabeth – John Thoburn and June Thoburn 35. Arboreal concatenations. A Quercus cerris for John and Elisabeth in Little Mesopotamia – Thomas Tuohy 36. Art history with an art historian couple: John Onians and Elisabeth de Bièvre – Mohsen Veysi Drawings – Elena Nesi 37. John the encourager – Adam Zeman Part III 38. Variations on a theme of phantasia: a tribute to John Onians – Michael A. Arbib 39. Margins in foreign guise: thoughts on some ornamentation in British Library Add. 27261. – Barbara Brend 40. The ‘Solomonic windows’ of Stirling Chapel Royal: connections between Scotland and the Netherlands – Ian Campbell 41. The groundline: a brief phenomenology – Whitney Davis 42. Neolithic New York: a brief speculation – Simon Dell Graffiti in Lower Manhattan – Allan Ludwig 43. Homo Imaginativus – Lauren Golden 44. The custom of the country: Latin culture in a provincial landscape – Martin Henig 45. Six men in two boats: Raphael’s tapestry cartoons for the Sistine Chapel and their precedents – Sandy Heslop 46. Armenian lessons with George Borrow – George Hyde 47. Picasso: Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon – Martin Kemp 48. In search of the museum / in search of a desert: a frieze and a ‘zoophorus’ – Sokratis Kioussis 49. Zerstreute Zitate und Gedanken über ‘Vulgarität’ – Siegfried Kohlhammer 50. The prefix and the semantic drift of Russian verbs – Michael A. Korovkin 51. Microcosms, museums and the miniature: what might a ‘World Art’ perspective be? – John Mack 52. Rembrandt and the emperor – John Mitchell 53. Sandro Chia: casual victory. An interview. – Stephanie Morin 54. ‘Ridentem pingere verum, quid vetat?’ or, the choice of Ghezzi – Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius 55. Natural and artistic Capricci and Bizzarríe – Rodney Palmer 56. Not the protestant ethic and not the spirit of capitalism: ex Ghana, randomly – Cesare Poppi 57. The penumbra and the shadow – Martin Powers 58. Episodes towards a history of art and environment – Veronica Sekules 59. The agency of a green filing cabinet: from art history to art and back again – Kitty Zijlmans and Rudi Struik Appendices Contributors’ Biographies List of Publications, Elisabeth de Bièvre List of Publications, John Onians 

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Gyöngyvér Horváth is an art historian, curator and independent researcher. She obtained her doctorate degree from the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2011. She is now an independent researcher and her main research focuses on the phenomenon of visual narration and pictorial storytelling. She has published on various topics related to Renaissance and Early Modern painting and book illustration, Hungarian modernism, and contemporary art. Isabelle Onians was a founding member of the Clay Sanskrit Library team, preparing bilingual editions and translations of Sanskrit literature. In addition to managing and co-editing the whole series, her own volume is a 7th-century coming-of-age novel (NYUP 2005). Since 2009 she has directed a World Learning SIT Study Abroad experiential learning centre in Kathmandu, Nepal, for graduate and undergraduate students from US universities studying Tibetan and Himalayan civilisations.

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