Art and illusion

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'One of the most brilliant books on art criticism I have ever reád.' kenneth clark. 'Professor Gombrich has written a challenging book. In his stylish and richly informed way, with the mind both of an art histórián and a scientist, he re-examines the basic problems in the theory of the visual arts and makes us both look at and see afresh what is involved in accepting an image as a íikeness.' the economist. 'It is a productively disturbing book because it asks us to re-examine so many suppositions in which the criticism, the appreciation and the history of art have been rooted, and it refers farbeyond the limits of its statements.' basil taylor in the sunday times. About the author . . . sir ernst gombrich, c.b.e., was, until 1976, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London. He has been Slade Professor of Fine Art at both Oxford and Cambridge, Professor of the History of Art at University College, London,... Tovább

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'One of the most brilliant books on art criticism I have ever reád.' kenneth clark. 'Professor Gombrich has written a challenging book. In his stylish and richly informed way, with the mind both of an art histórián and a scientist, he re-examines the basic problems in the theory of the visual arts and makes us both look at and see afresh what is involved in accepting an image as a íikeness.' the economist. 'It is a productively disturbing book because it asks us to re-examine so many suppositions in which the criticism, the appreciation and the history of art have been rooted, and it refers farbeyond the limits of its statements.' basil taylor in the sunday times. About the author . . . sir ernst gombrich, c.b.e., was, until 1976, Director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition in the University of London. He has been Slade Professor of Fine Art at both Oxford and Cambridge, Professor of the History of Art at University College, London, Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery, Washington, Visiting Professor at Harvard, Wrightsman Lecturer at the Institute of Fine Art, New York, and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell. His publications include The Story of Art, Meditations on a Hobby Horse, Norm and Form, Symbolic Images and The Heritage of Apelles. Phaidon Press Limited, St Ebbe's Street, Oxford Vissza