Eric Garberson
Biographic Data
| ID | 10575730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Garberson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Garberson |
| SIGNATURE | GARBERSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Gallery of Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Libraries, memory and the space of knowledge
This paper examines the claim current in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that a library housed in a single space with bookcases arrayed along the walls makes its contents immediately perceptible, as if to a single look of the eyes, and thus provides a general overview of knowledge. This overview was held to function as a memory aid, as were similar overviews, both metaphoric and diagrammatic, in early modern encyclopaedic texts. The argu…
Bibliotheca Windhagiana
Journal Article BIBLIOTHECA WINDHAGIANA: A seventeenth-century Austrian library and its decoration Get access Eric Garberson Eric Garberson Southern Baroque Painting, National Gallery of ArtWashington, DC 20565, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 109–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/5.2.109 Published: 01 December 1993
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Bibliotheca Windhagiana
Journal Article BIBLIOTHECA WINDHAGIANA: A seventeenth-century Austrian library and its decoration Get access Eric Garberson Eric Garberson Southern Baroque Painting, National Gallery of ArtWashington, DC 20565, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 5, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 109–128, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/5.2.109 Published: 01 December 1993
Libraries, memory and the space of knowledge
This paper examines the claim current in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that a library housed in a single space with bookcases arrayed along the walls makes its contents immediately perceptible, as if to a single look of the eyes, and thus provides a general overview of knowledge. This overview was held to function as a memory aid, as were similar overviews, both metaphoric and diagrammatic, in early modern encyclopaedic texts. The argu…
Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Baroque (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Diagrammatic reasoning (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Function (biology) (1 work)