"A book destined to become a standard work"-The Art Newspaper
Eric Fernie was formerly Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London and Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh.
Texts on methods with introductions; Critical glossary of concepts; Bibliography; Index. Giorgio Vasari - lives of the artists, 1958; Carel van Mander - Dutch and Flemish Painters, 1604; Giovanni Bellori - the idea of the painter, the sculptor and the architect chosen from the higher natural beauties of nature, 1672; Johann Winckelmann - history of ancient art, 1764; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Von deutscher Baukunst, 1772; Jakob Burckhardt - reflections on history, 1872; Giovanni Morelli - Italian painters, 1880; Alois Tiegi: late Roman art industry, 1901; Heinrich Wolfflin - principles of art history, 1915; Paul Franki - principles of architectural history, 1914; Roger Fry - reflections, 1920; Henri Focillon - the world of forms, 1934; Alfred H. Baff - chart of modern art, 1936; Erwin Panofshky - the history of art as a humanistic discipline, 1940; Nikolaus Pevsner - an outline of European architecture, 1943; Arnold Hauser - the scope a limitations of sociology of art, 1959; Susan Sontag - against interpretation, 1964; E.H. Gombrich - in search of cultural history, 1967; William Fagg - studying primitive art, 1973; T.J. Clark - the conditions of artistic creation, 1974; John Onians - art history, Kinstegschichte and historia, 1978; Michael Baldwin, Charles Harrison and Mel Ramsden - art history, art criticism and explanation, 1981; Svetlana Alpers - interpretation without representation, or the viewing of Las Meninas, 1983; Hans Belting - the end of the history of art?, 1984; Griselda Pollock - Feminist interventions in the history of Art, 1988.