Richard Woodfield, Research Professor in Visual Art

Forthcoming: “Kunstwissenschaft versus Ästhetik: The Historians' Revolt against Aesthetics” in Francis Halsall and Julia Jansen, Re-Discovering Aesthetics, New York: Columbia University Press; “The 1721 English Treatise of Painting: a Masonic moment in the Culture of Newtonianism” in Claire Farago (ed.), Re-reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe from 1550 to 1900, Burlington VT and Aldershot: Ashgate
2007: “The Bookshelf”, CAANews, 32 (2) March, 13; “Sanat ve Çevre: Eski Tarti_ma,Yeni Konular”, Sanat ve Çevre, Sanart: Ankara, 33-40; “Boots D90 Do_u Projesi”, Sanat ve Bilim ve Sanat ve Socyal Adanmi_lik: Sempoyumlar Bildiri Kitabi, Sanart: Ankara, 157-161
2006: Participation in ‘The Art Seminar’ and Assessment in James Elkins (ed) Aesthetics versus Art History, Routledge: New York, London, 53-4, 80-1, 110-4; Review: Thomas Heyd and John Clegg ‘Aesthetics and Rock Art’ caa.reviews
2005: “Gombrich” and “Podro” in Stuart Brown (ed.) Thoemmes Continuum Dictionary of 20th C British Philosophers, Thoemmes Continuum: Bristol, 332-5, 793-4; “Representational Meaning” in Iwony Lorenc (ed.), Odłamki, Pozbitych, Luster: rozprawy z filozofii kultury sztuki I etsetyki ofiarowane Pani Profesor Alicji Kuczyńskiej, Uniwersytet Warszawski: Wydzial Filozofii I Socjologii, 275-286; “Reflections on Writing the History of Aesthetics”, Literature and Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, 15 (1), 35- 41; Reviews: Alois Riegl (trans. Jacqueline E. Jung, foreword Benjamin Binstock) ‘Historical Grammar of the Arts’ caa.reviews; Michael Kelly (ed.) “Encyclopedia of Aesthetics”, Art Bulletin 83(3), 559-63 translated as “Una nueva enciclopedia de Estética” in Revisiones 01, 69-79
2004: “The UK Fine Art PhD and Research in Art & Design”, L&B (Lier en Boog) Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory, 18, 103-8; Papers: “The History of Art and the History of the Mind”, XVI International Congress of Aesthetics, Rio de Janeiro; “Reflections on Writing the History of Aesthetics”, Second Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics, Sydney; “Understanding Pictures: What Pictures Do”, Round Table on Realism in Pictures: the plasticity of representational systems, Adelaide; ‘Are the arts elitist?’, Cultural conversation with Dominic Lopes, John Armstrong and Jennifer McMahon at The University of Adelaide Art and Heritage Collections; Reviews: Philip Sohm “Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy”, British Journal of Aesthetics (BJA) 44(4), 441-444; Philippe-Alain Michaud ‘Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion’ caa.reviews
2003: “Ernst Gombrich and the Idea of Human Nature”, Human Affairs: A Postdisciplinary Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences published by the Slovak Academy of Sciences 13 (2), 163-70; “Aby Warburg” in Chris Murray (ed) Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, London and New York: Routledge, 262-9; “Pictorial Experience” in Ananta Ch. Sukla (ed) Art and Experience, Westport: Praeger, 71-90; “Gombrich’s 1955 Lecture to the British Psychological Society: ‘Art History and the Psychology of Perception’” in Paula Lizarraga (ed.) E.H. Gombrich: In memoriam, Pamplona: EUNSA (Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, S.A.), 167-184; Paper: “The October Questionnaire: Riegl, Warburg and Gombrich”, Framing Art History: reflections on the discipline, ESF Conference, Edinburgh. www.visualculture.org.uk.; Reviews: Chris Wood (ed.) “The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s”, caa.reviews; Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger (eds.) “Art in Theory 1648-1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61(2), 201-3; James Elkins “ Stories of Art ” , BJA 43(3), 336-338; "Journal of Visual Art Practice Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2 and 3", Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education 2 (1&2), 89-93; Back to Top
2002: "Gombrich and Psychology" in Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde (ed.)A Blackwell Companion to Art Theory, Blackwell: Oxford, 426-435; “Aesthetics at the end of the Century: Dessoir’s Project” in Ipek Tureli (ed.) Retrospective: Aesthetics and Art in the 20th Century, Ankara, 81-86.; “Some Reflections on Theatre Iconography” in Balme, Erenstein, Molinari, Bulzoni (ed.) European Theatre Iconography, Editore: Roma, 49-64; Papers: "Gombrich's 1955 Lecture to the British Psychological Society: 'Art History and the Psychology of Perception'", en el Congreso E.H. Gombrich (Viena 1909 – Londrea 2001). Teoria e Historia del Arte (Press release); ‘Art in a Corporate Context: Contemporary Art at Boots the Chemist’, Art and Social Engagement: International Symposium, Workshops and Art Events May 1-3, 2002 Middle East Technical University, Ankara – Turkey; Back to Top
2001: Art History as Cultural History: Warburg's Projects. Commentary by Richard Woodfield, G+B Arts International Inc: Amsterdam in its series Critical Voices. Contents Review; Framing Formalism: Riegl's Work. Commentary by Richard Woodfield, G+B Arts International Inc: Amsterdam in its series Critical Voices. Contents; Guest edited Point 12: Framing the Future (Research Journal for CHEAD) and the Yearbook of the International Association of Aesthetics.; Papers: “Aesthetics at the End of the Century: Dessoir's Project”, 15th International Congress on Aesthetics, Makuhari, Japan published in The Great Book of Aesthetics: The 15th International Congress of Aesthetics, Japan 2001, The University of Tokyo; "Ernst Gombrich's contributions to Kritische Berichte", Colloquium on Art History and the German Philosophical Tradition, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; "Aesthetics at the End of the Century: Dessoir's Project", SANART Symposium Retrospective: Aesthetics and Art in the 20th Century, Ankara; Reviews: Francis Ames-Lewis "The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist", BJA 42(1), 86-8; Michael Kelly (ed.) "Encyclopedia of Aesthetics", Art Bulletin 83(3), 559-63; Ellen Dissanayake "Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began", BJA 41(3), 343-5 Text; Back to Top
2000: "Gombrich on Style and Culture", The Misulsa Hakbo (Korean Art History Review) Special Issue: Art History of Eastern Asia: Issues and Perspectives, 14 (September), 23- 44 & 45- 57 (in Korean); "Style and Nationality", Art, Life, Culture: 2000 International Association for Aesthetics Executive Committee Meeting and Colloquium, Korean Society for Aesthetics & Institute for Arts and Culture, College of Humanities, Seoul National University, 31- 46; Back to Top
1999: Ernst Gombrich, Dal mio tempo: Città, maestri, incontri, a cura di Richard Woodfield, Einaudi: Torino 1999. Contents; "Photography and the Imagination", Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress on Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Filozofski Vestnik XX (2), 271-8; Paper:"Gombrich's Kunstwissenschaft: The use of art for the study of the mind", guest speaker at the annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik, Hanover; Inaugural Lecture: "The Daedalus Project: Art, Science and Technology in the Western European Tradition", Nottingham Trent University, February; Reviews: James Elkins "On Pictures and Words that Fail Them", American Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57(4), 471-3; Bjarne Sode Funch "The Psychology of Art Appreciation", BJA 39(2), 207-8; John Willats "Art and Representation: New Principles in the Analysis of Pictures", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57(1), 99-100; Back to Top
1998: Paper: "Photography and Imagination", XIVth International Congress on Aesthetics, Ljubljana; "Art and Evidence", ESF Network Conference on Theatre Iconography: Identification and interpretation of images, Mainz; Back to Top
1997: "Gombrich e la Semiotica", in La polifonia estetica: Specificità e raccordi, a cura di Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Guerini Studio: Milan, 15-25; Papers: "History of Art and the Psychology of Picture Perception", University of Copenhagen, December; "Art and the Environment", SANART Conference and Exhibition, Ankara, October; "Valuing Primitive Art: Danto and Gombrich", Nordic Society of Aesthetics, Oslo, May; Back to Top
1996: The Essential Gombrich, Phaidon Press: London (German translation Das Gombrich Lesebuch, Phaidon Press: Berlin 2003; French translationGombrich L’Essentiel, Phaidon Press: Paris 2003; Italian translation Sentieri verso l'arte: I testi chiave di Ernst H. Gombrich, Leonardo Arte: Milano 1997; Spanish translation, Gombrich Esencial: Textos Escogidos Sobre Arte y Cultura, Debate: Madrid 1997) Contents; Gombrich on Art and Psychology, Manchester University Press: Manchester "Contents; Gombrich on Perception and Mental Set", Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift, 16, 65-75; "Form, Expression and the Photograph" in a special issue of Interface: Bradford Studies in Language, Culture and Society: The World, The Image and Aesthetic Experience - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Perception and Understanding, pp. 263-84 also published in Polish by the Aesthetics Department of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow; Papers: "Gombrich's Project", University of East Anglia World Art Research Seminar; "Virtual Reality, Videogames and The Story of Art", Oxford University Department of Art History; "Gombrich on Semiotics and Psychology", Annual Conference of the Nordic Association of Aesthetics, Lund; "Images coming to life: Art and Ontology", Conference on Virtual Reality, Beeld & Universiteit, Brussels; Reviews: "Sheldon Richmond's Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi", Canadian Philosophical Review, March 1996), 50-1; "Gombrich's Story of Art", BJA, Summer 1996, 313-6; Back to Top
1995: "The Reception of the Vienna School of Art History" in Austrian Exodus: The Creative Achievements of Refugees from National Socialism, Austrian Studies 6, 169-75; "Tradition and Bildung" in English and Greek in the Greek journal Annales d'Esthétique, 34, 173-81; Papers: "Gombrich on Psychology and Semiotics", International Guest Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Aesthetics; "Contemporary Photographic Education in an International Perspective", Vevey, Switzerland; Back to Top
1994: "Expression, Form and Kunstwissenschaft" in Aesthetic Matters: Essays presented to Göran Sörbom on his 60th birthday ed. Lars-Olof Åhlberg and Tommie Zain, Uppsala University: Uppsala 1994, 154-163; "Gombrich on Art, Style and Culture", Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift, 12, 79-94; "Gombrich, Formalism and the Description of Works of Art", BJA, 34 (2), 134-45.; Papers: "Gombrich on Style and Culture", Vintermote held at the Department of Aesthetics, University of Uppsala, Sweden; "On Contemporary British Aesthetics", Slovakian Society of Aesthetics, Bratislava, Slovakia; "Wittgenstein and Popper on Aesthetics", Annual conference of the Hungarian Association of Aesthetics; "Tradition and Bildung", Joint meeting of the Hellenic and British Societies of Aesthetics, in Athens; Back to Top
1993: Papers: "On Form and Expression in the Photograph", Annual Conference of the Scandinavian Society of Aesthetics.; "On theoretical approaches to Photography" and "Gombrich on Style and Culture", Research Seminar of the Department of Aesthetics at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow; "On Semiotics and the Photograph" to the Research Seminar of the Swire School of Design, Hong Kong; Back to Top
1992: "Resemblance" in A Companion to Aesthetics: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy ed D. Cooper, Blackwell: Oxford, 369-372; "Gombrich, formalism and the description of works of art", Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Formalism held by the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May, 2, 119-131; "Bill Brandt", in Danish and English, in the Danish journal Katalog: Kvartalstidsskrift for Fotografi, 4(3), Marts, 3-11; Paper: "Gombrich, formalism and the description of works of art", International Colloquium on Formalism held by the Slovenian Society for Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Back to Top
1991: Guest edited a special issue of the American Studies journal Over Here: An American Studies Journal on post war American art and criticism 11(2); Back to Top
1990: Edited the Papers of the XIth International Congress on Aesthetics, published Nottingham Trent Polytechnic Press; "The Institutional Theory of Art", in Russian, in the Moscow art journal Iskusstvo, 46-49; Paper: Presentation on the creation of a network of European scholars in aesthetics at a conference in Siena published as "The European Aesthetics Network" in Le Grandi Correnti dell'Estetica Novecentesca ed. Gracia Marchiano, Guerini Studio: Milan 1991, pp. 261-263; Review: John Hyman, "The Imitation of Nature", BJA 30(3), 280-2; Back to Top
1989: "L'effet du réel: an alternative account" in a special issue of the Polish philosophy journal Dialectics and Humanism edited by Harold Osborne; Paper: "Rewriting Symbolism: Towards a Critique of Semiotics", Birmingham Polytechnic Postgraduate Seminar; Back to Top
1988: "Peetz and Wollheim on Gombrich's illusions", BJA 28(3), 278-80; Back to Top
1987: Reflections on the History of Art by E H Gombrich, Phaidon: Oxford (French translation Réflexions sur l'histoire de l'art, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon: Nîmes 1991; Italian translation Riflessioni sulla storia dell'arte, Einaudi: Torino 1991; German translation Kunst und Kritik, Klett-Cotta: Stuttgart 1993); "Art in the Service of History - The Guardian on Modernism and Post-Modernism", Over Here: An American Studies Journal 7(1), 1-11; Review: Wolfgang Haug, "Critique of Commodity Aesthetics", BJA 27(4), 377-8; Back to Top
1986: "Words and Pictures", BJA 26(4), 357-70; Review: Moshe Barasch, "Theories of Art from Plato to Winckelmann", BJA 26(4), 395-6; Back to Top
1985: Guest edited Harold Osborne's festschrift, a special issue of the BJA 25(2); "Some Notes on Roland Barthes' Photographic Message", Trent Occasional Papers in Photography; "Gombrich on Language and Meaning", BJA 25(4), 389-93; Paper: "Words and Pictures", British Society of Aesthetics Conference; Review: Norman Peterson, "Photographic Art: Media and Disclosure", BJA 25(3), 292-3; Back to Top
1984: Paper: "On H R Jauss's Art History and Pragmatic History" Nottingham University Staff Critical Theory Seminar; Back to Top
1983: Paper: "Walter Benjamin on the Mechanical Reproduction of Works of Art", Nottingham University Staff Critical Theory Seminar; Back to Top
1982: Paper: "Towards a new Photographic History", Birmingham Polytechnic Postgraduate Seminar; Back to Top
1981: Reviews: Ernst Buschor, "On the Meaning of Greek Statues", BJA 21(2), 175-6; Rose-Carol Washton Long, "Kandinsky", BJA 21(4), 380-81; Back to Top
1980: "Thomas Hobbes and the Formation of Aesthetics in England", BJA 20(2), 146-52; Back to Top
1978: "On the Emergence of Aesthetics", BJA 18(3), 217-227; Back to Top
1977: Review: Rudolph Makkreel, "Dilthey Philosopher of the Human Sciences", BJA 17(3), 282-3; Back to Top
1976: Review: Göran Hermeren, "Influence in Art and Literature", BJA 16(4), 376-7; Back to Top
1975: (ed.) Winckelmann's Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks , with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston; (ed.) Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, with a revised introduction, Scolar Press: Menston (reprinted Olms, 2002); "The Freedom of Shaftsbury's Classicism", BJA 15(3), 254-66; Paper: "On the Emergence of Aesthetics", Nottingham University Society of Philosophical Aesthetics; Review: F.J.W. Harding, "Jean-Marie Guyau", BJA 15(2), 179-180; Back to Top
1973: "Winckelmann and the Abbé du Bos", BJA 13(3), 271-5; Reviews: David Irwin, "Winckelmann, Writings on Art", BJA 13(1), 86-7; JP Hodin, "Eduard Munch", BJA 13(3), 89; Donald Posner, "Annibale Carracci", BJA 13(3), 309-10; Back to Top
1972: (ed.) Richardson's Two Discourses, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston; (ed.) "Hobbes on the Laws of Nature and the Atheist", Renaissance and Modern Studies; Paper: "Neoclassical Art Theory", British Society of Aesthetics, London; Reviews: Michael Baxandall, "Giotto and the Orators", BJA 12(2), 199-200; John Adkins Richardson, "Modern Art and Scientific Thought", BJA 12(3), 303-4; Ferenc Tokei, "Genre Theory in China", BJA 12(3), 305-6; Anita Brookner, "The Genius of the Future", BJA 12(4), 408-9; Back to Top
1971: (ed.) Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, with introduction, Scolar Press Menston; (ed.) Richardson's An Essay on the Theory of Painting, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston; (ed.) Reynolds' Seven Discourses, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston; Paper: "Mannerist Art Theory", British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, London , abstract BJA 12(2), 118-9; Back to Top
1970: (ed.) Dolce's Aretin: A Dialogue on Painting, with introduction, Scolar Press: Menston; Back to Top
1968: Paper: "The Idea of a Social Contract", Nottingham University Staff Philosophy Seminar; Back to Top
1967: Paper: "Desiring a thing and calling it 'good'", Nottingham University Staff Philosophy Seminar; Back to Top