곰브리치와 영국 미술사학회의 기원 = Gombrich and the Establishment of Art History in England

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This study addresses E, H, Gombrich(1911-2001), one of the most important art historians in the late century, from the critical point of view. Questions arise as to how he adapted conceptual art history from Continen-tal Europe into empirical English soils, and how he defended conservative art history against the New Art History towards the end of his life. It is no doubt that Gombrich made a critical contribution to the devel-opment of art history as a firm academic discipline in the late century. His life, however, fluctuated heavily during the political turmoils in the first half of the century. Born in wealthy Jewish family in fin-de-siecle Vienna, he had to make most of his career in England where he began his life as a refugee just before the World War II. The timing of the arrival of Gombrich with other German-speaking refugee art historians such as Rudolf. Wit-tkower and Nikolaus. Pevsner was so perfect. They provided a great stimu-lus to the study of art history in England which lagged far behind the Conti-nental Europe at that time, The strong critidsm Gombrich made against Hegelian art history as its Totalitarian approach to history was rightly from the bottom of his heart and rock-solid experience, but was exactly what conservative English establishment wanted during the cold war against Soviet countries, After a series of academic success in the 1950s. he had stunning response from main stream English sociery, He honoured knighthood in 1972 and Order of Merit in 1988. This study concludes that Gombrich also translated the essential ideas of Continental art history based on Hegelian Historicism into English acade-mic soils, replacing zeitgeist or Weltanschauung with empirical experimence and analytic experimentation, In the end it shows that political ele-ment was one of the working principles of Art History in England.