According to Gombrich ( utube conversation with Charlie Rose) this book was not written for children. His previous book was: he was asked to write The Story of Art for children but refused saying he would write one for adults.
You are right. "Story of Art" was for the general public -- it simplifies and condenses things he wrote about at length elsewhere. And wasn't the "Little History of the World" written for children? (I read that one once; it has a fair amount of traditional military history.)
Community college professor here; first off, thank you so much for posting these lectures, the simultaneous accessibility and rigor is inspiring as it is precisely how I hope to model my own introductory Art History 101 survey course. A question I have is how would you advise assigning readings based on this material (Gombrich is the primary source, of course, but several other classic survey texts follow along very similar lines, and the critiques of such works are often far denser and difficult for beginning students to read then the originals)?
Readings are a puzzle. I have tried assembling readings lists for some; I could send if you want (jelkins@saic.edu). At the moment I am preparing a second edition of the book Stories of Art, with links to about half these videos (and readings included).
This is great, thank you. I appreciate the effort you put into these
According to Gombrich ( utube conversation with Charlie Rose) this book was not written for children. His previous book was: he was asked to write The Story of Art for children but refused saying he would write one for adults.
You are right. "Story of Art" was for the general public -- it simplifies and condenses things he wrote about at length elsewhere. And wasn't the "Little History of the World" written for children? (I read that one once; it has a fair amount of traditional military history.)
Community college professor here; first off, thank you so much for posting these lectures, the simultaneous accessibility and rigor is inspiring as it is precisely how I hope to model my own introductory Art History 101 survey course. A question I have is how would you advise assigning readings based on this material (Gombrich is the primary source, of course, but several other classic survey texts follow along very similar lines, and the critiques of such works are often far denser and difficult for beginning students to read then the originals)?
Readings are a puzzle. I have tried assembling readings lists for some; I could send if you want (jelkins@saic.edu). At the moment I am preparing a second edition of the book Stories of Art, with links to about half these videos (and readings included).