Conférences : « E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series », Londres/en ligne, The Warburg Institute, 10-12 septembre 2024
In February 1937, Johan Huizinga presented a lecture based on Homo ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (1938) at the Warburg Institute, with a young Viennese art historian, Ernst Gombrich, in the audience. Gombrich was already thinking about visual play with Fritz Saxl as well as Ernst Kris who discussed caricature in this Warburg lecture series of 1937. Laughter, jokes, play, and paradox are fundamental to understanding Renaissance culture. They also shaped...