Substance, sensation, and perception
Subtitle: Michael Baxandall
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Michael Baxandall
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open for qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

British-born art historian Michael Baxandall (1933-2008) has been widely influential for his analytical method, "the period eye," which he described in Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy (1972). He prepared a doctoral thesis under Ernst Gombrich at the Warburg Institute.  In 1961, he was appointed assistant keeper in the Department of Architecture and Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum and later became Slade professor at Oxford and a lecturer at the University of London. Beginning in the 1980s he taught in the United States, first at Cornell University and later at the University of California, Berkeley.

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)