John Onians

Biographic Data

ID1135138
NAMEJohn Onians
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEOnians
SIGNATUREONIANS J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of East Anglia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS54
WORKS AS AUTHOR22
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • Plural Imagination

    Matthew Mackisack, Susan Aldworth et al.ARTICLEArt Journal2022

    The experience of visual mental imagery—seeing in the mind’s eye—varies widely between individuals, but perhaps because we tend to assume our own way of thinking to be everyone’s, how this crucial variation impacts art practice, and indeed art history, has barely been addressed. We seek to correct this omission by pursuing the implications of how artists with aphantasia (the absence of mental imagery) and hyperphantasia (imagery of extreme vividn…

  • Bearers of Meaning

    John OniansBOOKBearers of Meaning2020

  • About Face

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEArt History2019

  • Art History and Memory, From the Couch to the Scanner

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEArt History2017

  • The ‘masterpiece’

    John OniansARTICLEWorld Art2015References: 2

    The article reconsiders current assumptions about the social framing of the concept of the masterpiece. By showing that one of the earliest masterpieces from the cave of Chauvet is principally the product of non-conscious neural processes, and especially neural plasticity and neural mirroring, and hardly influenced either by social context generally or by verbal exchanges in particular it opens a new approach to an old issue

  • World art

    John OniansARTICLEWorld Art2011References: 1

    The interest in art as a worldwide manifestation has grown significantly since the ‘World Art: Ways Forward’ conference in 2007. Many publications have appeared, important conferences have been arranged and an ambitious series of radio broadcasts presented by the Director of the British Museum. It is impossible to understand art worldwide without an appreciation of the influences of human nature and of the nature of the environment

  • Wilde, Pevsner, Gombrich

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEPerspective2007

    qu'elle dtient aujourd'hui en matire de tradition d'histoire de l'art, et aussi en partie ses limites. Avant l'arrive des rfugis fuyant le nazisme, venus principalement d'Autriche, d'Allemagne et de Hongrie, mais aussi d'autres pays d'Europe centrale, l'histoire de l'art en Grande-Bretagne tait une tradition universitaire faiblement reprsente, mme si elle offrait de larges possibilits

  • Ancient Greece

    J J Coulton, Lothar Haselberger et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Quintilian

    John OniansCHAPTER2003

  • A natural anthropology of art

    Open AccessJohn Onians, Onians JohnARTICLEInternational Journal of…2003Cited by: 1

    This article discusses the relevance of recent developments in neurobiology for the study of art worldwide. It is argued that both anthropologists and art historians can gain a better understanding of species-specific art and art practices over time and space by broadening their vision and approaches, building on the fundamental and exciting findings concerning art in neurobiology

  • Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome

    John OniansBOOKClassical art and the cultures of…1999

    BOOKClassical Art and the Cultures of Greece and RomeJohn Onians https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00031 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15987Copy In this highly original inquiry into the foundations of European culture, John Onians argues that the study of classical art provides a unique window into the minds of the Greeks and Romans for whom it was produced. Onians provides a sweeping account that ranges from the Greek Dark Ages to the …

  • Sight & Insight

    Open AccessJohn Onians, David WoottonARTICLEThe Art Book1994

  • Idea and Product

    John OniansARTICLEJournal of Design History1991

    Journal Article Idea and Product: Potter and Philosopher in Classical Athens Get access JOHN ONIANS JOHN ONIANS University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Design History, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 65–73, https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/4.2.65 Published: 01 June 1991

  • Bearers of Meaning

    John OniansBOOKBearers of Meaning1990

    BOOKBearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the RenaissanceJohn Onians https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00026 Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19485Copy For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,00…

  • Bearers of Meaning

    John OniansBOOKBearers of Meaning1990

  • War, Mathematics, and Art in Ancient Greece

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEHistory of the Human Sciences1989Cited by: 1

  • An Invitation to Answer Back

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEArt History1987

  • On How to Listen to High Renaissance Art

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEArt History1984

  • Brunelleschi

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEArt History1982Cited by: 1

  • Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age

    John J Gahan, John OniansARTICLEPhoenix1981Cited by: 6

  • Abstraction and Imagination in Late Antiquity

    Open AccessJohn OniansARTICLEArt History1980Cited by: 38

  • The Origins of Art

    Open AccessDesmond Collins, John OniansARTICLEArt History1978Cited by: 7References: 4