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Biography
Hans C. Hones is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Aberdeen, as well as Undergraduate Programme Coordinator for the MA in Art History. Prior to joining UoA in 2020, he worked as a lecturer at the Courtauld Institute and has held teaching and research positions at The Warburg Institute and UCL, among other. He gained his PhD from LMU Munich in 2013.
Hans is a leading researcher in the field of art historiography and art theory. He has published monographs on seminal figures such as Heinrich Wölfflin and Aby Warburg, on the search for the 'origins of art' in eighteenth-century historiography, and on (self-) translation and migration in art history.
Much of his work addresses the history of humanities more broadly. He has a keen interest in the formation of art history as an academic discipline, and its intersections with neighbouring areas of study, such as Classics and antiquarianism, prehistoric archaeology, and theology.
To date, Hans has published three single-authored monographs, seven edited collections, special issues, and exhibition catalogues, and c. 40 essays. His work has been supported by the Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and the Paul Mellon Centre London.
Prizes and Awards
Paul Mellon Centre Research Collections Fellowship 2021/22
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Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Art History.
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Art History
Accepting PhDsCurrent Research
Hans is a leading expert in the history of art historiography. He has published extensively on art historiography since the eighteenth century, and has written and edited books on: Heinrich Wölfflin (Wölfflins Bild-Körper, 2011), eighteenth-century antiquarianism (Kunst am Ursprung, 2014), and art history and migration (Migrating Histories of Art, co-ed. 2019), among others. His third monograph Tangled Paths. A Life of Aby Warburg has been published by Reaktion Books in spring 2024. Much of his work focuses on the intersections of art history with neighbouring fields of knowledge: Classics, Archaeology, Theology among them. His work is driven by a love for archives, and for unearthing ideas and debates that help to rethink the canonical narrative of art history and its place in modern academia.
Art History in Britain
Much of Hans’ recent work has been focused on the history of art history in Britain. He aims to reassess the history of art history in Britain by focusing on the institutional debates on the place of the discipline in the country’s education system. The project argues that the marginal status of art history in British academia is best understood not as an intellectual problem, but as the result of institutional power struggles: the remit of art history was contested by more established professions such as academic artists, historians, or classicists who considered the historical study of artworks (e.g. medieval manuscripts and Greek sculpture) as their domain. Hans is interested in how art historians professionalised themselves and eventually carved out a niche for their subject, amidst a changing landscape of higher education.
For some preliminary results, see the articles in British Art Studies 2022; Kunstchronik 2022; Zeitschrift fuer Kunstgeschichte 2021, and in the edited volume Migrating Histories of Art. Self-Translations of a Disciplin, 2019.
Art and Environment in the nineteenth-century
He also has a keen interest on the role of environmental discourses for Neoclassical and Romantic art and art theory. He is particularly interested in the reception of Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s climate theory in 18th and 19th-century art and archaeology, and its consequences for neoclassical geographies of art, culture, and the “Greek ideal” (see articles on Joseph Gandy, Architectural History 2021; on Humber de Superville, kritische berichte 2021; and in the volume Winckelmann und die Schweiz, 2018).
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Tangled Paths: A Life of Aby Warburg
Reaktion Books. 288 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksFlat Iconology: Metamorphoses of a Method in British Exile
Art Historiography and Iconologies Between West and East. Bałus, W., Kunińska, M. (eds.). Routledge, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003137528-7
Wölfflin’s North:: The Burden of Belonging
Journal of the Northern Renaissance, vol. 14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Rise and Fall of the ‘clerks’”: British Art History, 1950-1970.
British Art Studies, no. 24Contributions to Journals: ArticlesBritish Art and British Art History
Kunstchronik, vol. 75, no. 7, pp. 343-347Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/kc.2022.7
Out of the Shadows? Discovering Mary Warburg: Review of: Hedinger, Bärbel; Diers, Michael (Eds.): Mary Warburg. Porträt einer Künstlerin. Leben, Werk, München: Hirmer Verlag 2020 ISBN-13: 978-3-7774-3614-2, 535 S., EUR 68.00
Journal of Art Historiography, vol. 25, 25/HCH1Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsPainting Art History: Review of Lea Kuhn, Gemalte Kunstgeschichte, 2020
Journal of Art Historiography, vol. 25Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.48352/uobxjah.00003492
Gandy's Arkaiology: The Deluge and Romantic Climatologies of Architecture
Architectural History, vol. 64, pp. 321-346Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.13
Vor der Flut: Humbert de Superville und die Abgründe der Vorzeit
kritische berichte, no. 2, pp. 24-34Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUntranslatable: Gottfried Kinkel, ‘Kulturgeschichte’ and British Art Historiography
Zeitschrift fuer Kunstgeschichte, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 248-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ZKG-2021-2005
Winckelmann im Sammlungsraum: Armut macht Geschichte
Schöne Wissenschaften: Sammeln, Ordnen und Präsentieren im Josephinischen Wien. Fischer, N., Mader-Kratky, A. (eds.). 1 edition. Austrian Academy of Science, pp. 127-142, 16 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] https://www.austriaca.at/0xc1aa5576_0x003c74af.pdf
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Hedinger, Bärbel; Diers, Michael: Mary Warburg. Porträt einer Künstlerin
ArtHist.net, no. Apr 18 2021Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesModern Lives – Modern Legends: Artist Anecdotes since the 18th century
Journal of Art Historiography, vol. 23Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Match Not Made in Heaven: Artist Anecdotes and the ‘Dialogues of the Dead’
Journal of Art Historiography, vol. 23, 23/HCH1Contributions to Journals: ArticlesKlassizismus, Weltkunst und die Verführungen des Bildvergleiches
Sehen als Vergleichen: Praktiken des Vergleichens von Bildern, Kunstwerken und Artefakten. Grave, J., Hochkirchen, B., Heyder, J. C. (eds.). Bielefeld University Press, pp. 51-80, 30 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Norm und System. Winckelmann und die Royal Academy
Marburger Jahrbuch fur Kunstwissenschaft, vol. 46Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVorsicht Tiefsinn!: Review of Kurt Forster, Aby Warburgs Kulturwissenschaft, 2018
Kunstchronik, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 2-6Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews’A very specialised subject’: Art History in Britain
Insiders/Outsiders.: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. Bohm-Duchen, M. (ed.). Lund HumphriesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersEmbodied Formalism: Knowledge beyond Thought: Review of Zeynep Celik Alexander, Kinaesthetic Knowing, 2017
Art History, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 402-405Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12434
Migrating Histories of Art: Self-translations of a discipline
Books and Reports: AnthologiesSeductive Foreignness. Gottfried Kinkel at University College London
Migrating Histories of Art. Self-Translations of a Discipline. Hönes, H., Costa, M. T. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 149-164, 218-22Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSpielraum der Rationalität.: Warburg und die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
Aby Warburg und die Natur. Fehrenbach, F., Zumbusch, C. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 33-48Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583410
Warburg’s Positivism: Confessions of a Truffle Pig
Oxford Art Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 361-379Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcy019
Kunst in der Dachrinne: Friedrich Oliviers introspektives Gemälde Noahs Einzug in die Arche
Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburgs Vermaechtnis und die Zukunft der Ikonologie. Beyer, A. (ed.). Wagenbach, pp. 202-211Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAgainst "vulgar and shallow interdisciplinarity": Review of Matthew Rampley, The Seductions of Darwin, 2018
Kunstchronik, vol. 71, no. 3, pp. 130-134Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsDie Sümpfe der Schweiz. Klimatheorie und Ursprungssuchen
Winckelmann und die Schweiz: Akten der internationalen Tagung Zürich, 18.-19. Mai 2017. Beyer, A., Kunze, M., Krahenbuhl, R. (eds.). Michael Imhof Verlag, pp. 99-107Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersGegen Einfluss: Geniale Sturzfluten
Einfluss, Strömung Quelle. Aquatische Metaphern in der Kunstgeschichte. Pfisterer, U., Tauber, C. (eds.). transcript Verlag, pp. 75-95Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839443880
Metadata: How we relate to Images
, London. 129 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] http://hdl.handle.net/2262/96364
Norbert Miller: Marblemania
sehepunkte, vol. 18, no. 9Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsSix Years Later: Writing Prehistory
De-Materializations in Art and Art-Historical Discourse in the 20th Century: Proceedings of a conference held in Tomaszowice on 14–16 May 2017. Balus, W., Kuninska, M. (eds.), pp. 35-53Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersAllegory, Ornament, and Prehistory's "secret influence"
Idols and Museum Pieces: The Nature of Sculpture, its Historiography and Exhibition History, 1640-1880. van Eck, C. (ed.). Walter de Gruyter & Co., pp. 115-126, 238-241Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Bloß zufällig: Kritik und Selbstkritik des Bildvergleichs bei Wölfflin
Der vergleichende Blick: Formanalysen in Natur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Bruhns, M., Scholz, G. (eds.). Dietrich Reimer Verlag, pp. 55-68Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Einweg oder Mehrweg? Bilder im Gebrauch und die Freuden des Wegwerfens: Review of Hinterwaldner/Wolff/Wagner, Einwegbilder, 2016
Kunstchronik, vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 576-581Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsPaper Monuments for Antiquaries (Caylus, Winckelmann, D'Hancarville): Metahistorical Interventions
Wiener Jahrbuch Kunstgeschichte, vol. 63/64, pp. 257-268Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205205999.257
Prehistoric Hunting Magic: Fateful years of a phypothesis
Hunting without Weapons: On the pursuit of Images. Sass, M. (ed.). de Gruyter, pp. 185-201Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Re-connecting with Culture: A reply to Whitney Davis
Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 258-266Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.165
Speculative Science: Aby Warburg and Probability Theory
Philosophy of Photography, vol. 8, no. 1-2, pp. 131-139Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://philpapers.org/rec/HNESSA-2
Anti-formalist responses: Review of Caroline van Eck, Arg, Agency and Living Presence, 2015
Kunstchronik, vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 436-440Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsGar nicht so esoterisch: hieroglyphen im 18. Jahrhundert: Review of Annette Graczyk, Die Hieroglyphe im 18. Jahrhundert, 2015
Kunstchronik, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 127-130Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsPosing Problems: George Kubler's 'Prime Objects'
Journal of Visual Art Practice, vol. 15, no. 2-3 Headstone to Hard Drive, pp. 261-269Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2016.1228808
Enlivening and - dividing: An Aporia of Illumination
Contemporaneity, vol. 4, pp. 1-23Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/contemp.2015.73
Aby Warburg: Fragmente zur Ausdruckskunde
Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin / New York. 372 pagesBooks and Reports: Scholarly EditionsDie Geburt der Kunstgeschichte in England: Gottfried Kinkels Vorlesungen am University College London, 1853
Kunstchronik, vol. 68, no. 9-10, pp. 487-491Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNachwort: Der kleine Antennerich: Kunstpsychologie als Selbsterkundung als Kunstpsychologie
Aby Warburg, Fragmente zur Ausdrucksunde. Pfisterer, U., Hönes, H. C. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 321-351Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReview: Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, vol. 10, no. 9Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsZum Geschichtsbewusstsein des Hoehlenmenschen: Review of Max Raphael, Die Hand an der Wand, 2013
Kunstchronik, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 544-548Contributions to Journals: Literature ReviewsKunst am Ursprung: Das Nachleben der Bilder und die Souveränität des Antiquars
transcript Verlag. 327 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839427507.fm
Anfang und Metapher.: George Kubler und das Problem kuenstlerischer Innovation
Kunstgeschichte. Open peer-reviewed journalContributions to Journals: ArticlesEinleitung
Georg Wolfgang Knorr, Historische Künstler-Belustigung, Nürnberg 1738. Hoenes, H. C. (ed.). UB Heidelberg, pp. 2-15Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/artdok.00002752
Neue ikonographische Methoden aus einer Welt ohne Schrift: Review of Vernon J. Knight, Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory, 2013
Kunstchronik, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 394-399Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews