Art LoVers: Celebrating Elisabeth de Bievre and John Onians in Words and Pictures

by Gyongyver Horvath (Editor), Isabelle Onians (Editor)

Overview

This double Festschrift honours the distinguished careers and academic accomplishment of art historians Elisabeth de Bievre 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803279756
Publisher:	Archaeopress Publishing
Publication date:	07/03/2025
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.95(w) x 10.87(h) x (d)
Language:	Dutch

About the Author

Gyongyver Horvath 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.

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 lovea / 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 Ph D with John and Elisabeth - Gyöngyvér Horvssth

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 Mac Kisack

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 uber '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 Bizzarre - 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

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