John Onians

John Onians, BA PhD FSA, (born 1942) 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. He founded the discipline Neuroarthistory.

Biography

Onians is graduate of the University of Cambridge, and of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Warburg Institutes of the University of London that latter in which he was a PhD student of Ernst Gombrich. He was Founder Editor of Art History Journal in 1978. He has taught at the University of East Anglia since 1971 until his retirement in 2007 where he was instrumental in the development of the Art History department, and the creation of the School of World Art Studies. He has authored four books "Art and the Thought in the Hellenistic Age", [Onians, J. (1979) "Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age: Greek World View, 350-5 B.C". (Paperback) Thames & Hudson Ltd] "Bearers of Meaning", [Onians, J. (1990) "Bearers of Meaning: Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" Princeton University Press; New Ed edition (1 Jul 1992)] "Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome", [Onians, J. (1999) "Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome" Yale University Press] and "Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki" (2008). [Onians, J. (2008) N"euroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki" Yale University Press] He has edited "Sight and Insight", [Onians, J. (Ed.) (1994) "Sight and Insight: Essays on Art and Culture in Honour of E.H.Gombrich at 85" Phaidon Press Ltd ] "Atlas of World Art", [Onians, J. (Ed.) (2004) "Atlas of World Art" Laurence King Publishing] , and "Compression Vs. Expression". [Onians, J. (Ed.) (2006) "Compression Vs. Expression: Containing and Explaining the World's Art (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts)" Yale University Press] He founded the discipline Neuroarthistory in 2005.

Onians has been discussed in books such as Art History and its Methods (1995) [Fernie, E. (1995) "Art History and its Methods: A Critical Anthology" Phaidon] and Raising the Eyebrow (2002). [ Golden, L. (Ed.) (2002)"Raising the Eyebrow: John Onians and World Art Studies"]

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