On Ernst H. Gombrich’s Conception of Illusion in Depiction
Elisa Caldarola
research: Seminar
On Ernst H. Gombrich’s Conception of Illusion in Depiction
Elisa Caldarola
In the first part of the talk, I analyze the role played by the notion of ‘illusion’ in the arguments put forward by Ernst H. Gombrich in Art and Illusion (1960). In the second part, I show how some points made by Gombrich have been interpreted and further developed in more recent debate on the nature of pictorial experience.
Biography
Elisa Caldarola
Elisa Caldarola is a S.T.A.R.S. Grant Fellow at the University of Padova. She has been Visiting Scholar at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2016-2017), Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland (2015-2016), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Padova (2012-2016), and Visiting Research Student at The Queen’s College, Oxford (2008). Her published work focuses on abstract painting, caricature, conceptual art and the meta-ontology of art, as well as on Ernst H. Gombrich’s and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s views on depiction. Her current research project concerns sitespecific art, installation art and curatorial practice.
research: seminar
On Ernst H. Gombrich’s Conception of Illusion in Depiction
Elisa Caldarola
In the first part of the talk, I analyze the role played by the notion of ‘illusion’ in the arguments put forward by Ernst H. Gombrich in Art and Illusion (1960). In the second part, I show how some points made by Gombrich have been interpreted and further developed in more recent debate on the nature of pictorial experience.