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The Needs of the Mind: Ernst H. Gombrich on Art
Sybille Moser-Ernst
Sybille Moser-Ernst
Sybille Moser-Ernst (academic), Department of Art History, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria. Email: sybille.moser@uibk.ac.at.
SYBILLE MOSER-ERNST, a professor of art history at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), was a postdoctoral student of Ernst H. Gombrich in London. She engages in researching the mimetic desire of humans and their need to create images. Her interest focuses on questions of the how of the making of images (Bilder) and of the correlations of religion and art. Ready to cross disciplinary boundaries, she also is a portrait painter. Her next book is on caricature.
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Sybille Moser-Ernst
Sybille Moser-Ernst (academic), Department of Art History, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria. Email: sybille.moser@uibk.ac.at.
SYBILLE MOSER-ERNST, a professor of art history at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), was a postdoctoral student of Ernst H. Gombrich in London. She engages in researching the mimetic desire of humans and their need to create images. Her interest focuses on questions of the how of the making of images (Bilder) and of the correlations of religion and art. Ready to cross disciplinary boundaries, she also is a portrait painter. Her next book is on caricature.
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December 11 2017
Online ISSN: 1530-9282
Print ISSN: 0024-094X
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Leonardo (2018) 51 (03): 225–226.
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Sybille Moser-Ernst; The Needs of the Mind: Ernst H. Gombrich on Art. Leonardo 2018; 51 (03): 225–226. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01619
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