Norman Bryson
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson recalls Charles Sterling's distinction between megalography and rhopography: “Megalography is the depiction of those things in the world which are great—the legends of the gods, the battle of heroes, the crises of history. Rhopography (from rhopos, trivial objects, small wares, trifles) is the depiction of those things which lack importance, the unassuming material base of life that 'importance' constantly overlooks." --A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life (2009) Mira Schor |
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William Norman Bryson (born 1949) is an Anglo American art historian who authored several major works that were particularly influential in the 1980s and 1990s move to a more literary theory-based approach to art history, including Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime (1983), Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze (1986), and Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (1987). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a full professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University. In a shift from that earlier period, he now is faculty at University of California, San Diego, and primarily writes about contemporary art, such as Sharon Lockhart.
Works
Looking at the Overlooked : Four Essays on Still Life Painting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990;.
Tradition and Desire: from David to Delacroix. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984;.
Vision and Painting: the Logic of the Gaze. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983;
Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981; Edited by Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey:
Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994, and
Visual Theory: Painting and Iinterpretation. Cambridge: Polity in association with Blackwell, 1989; edited,
Calligram: Essays in New Art History from France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
