Author(s): Richard Woodfield
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Professor E.H Gombrich is acknowledged as one of the most influential scholars and thinkers of the 20th century. This volume presents a selection of his writings, and introduces the reader to his ideas and arguments on many fundamental questions in art, history and culture.
Autobiographical; the visual image; art and psychology; tradition and innovation; psychology and the decorative arts; primitivism and the primitive; on the nature of art history; alternatives to the "Spirit of Age"; on the meanings of works of art; high art and popular culture; Gombrich from within tradition.