Richard Woodfield's contributions have profoundly shaped the field of art historiography, including the
discipline's first peer-reviewed digital open access journal, launched in 2009.
This conference will honour his memory and provide a platform to explore themes that were central to Woodfield's academic work: the intellectual legacy of Ernst Gombrich and the Vienna School of Art History. It will also address the question of how to deal with an art historical legacy.
11.00 – 11:30 Welcome
o MARKUS RITTER, Head of the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna
o HEIDRUN ROSENBERG (Vienna)
Introduction: There is no such thing as art history. There are only art historians
11:30 – 13:30
o LEONIE GOMBRICH, (London)
Gombrich and Woodfield
o STEFANIIA DEMCHUK (Kyiv)
Richard Woodfield`s editorial activities: Uniting Western and East-Central historiographies
o YUKA KADOI (Vienna)
Ernst Gombrich and World Arts: Richard Woodfield´s Reflections on the Historiography of
Non-European Arts (2009-2024)
15:30 – 17:30
o RAPHAEL ROSENBERG (Vienna)
Art history and psychology. Gombrich's position in the long history of interactions
o TOMÀŠ MURAR (Prague)
FABIO TONONI (Lisbon)
Gombrich before and after Gombrich
o MATTHEW RAMPLEY (Brno)
Gombrich, Popper and the Ethics of Art History
18:00 Evening Keynote
o YIQIANG CAO (Hangzhou)
Geschichte als Exil: Gombrichs Kurze Weltgeschichte und The Story of Art
