Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 5) - Hardcover

Gombrich, E. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691097852 ISBN 13: 9780691097855

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1961

Synopsis

An attempt to explain rationally the shifting styles of art, from antiquity to the present, employing modern concepts of visual perception, information theory, and learning.

About this title

About the Author:

E. H. Gombrich was director of the Warburg Institute and Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition at the University of London, 1959-1976. He was born in 1909 in Vienna, where he studied the history of art under Julius von Schlosser and classical archaeology under Emanuel Loewy. He has been Slade Professor of Fine Art at both Oxford and Cambridge, Visiting Professor at Harvard, Spencer Trask Lecturer at Princeton, and Walker Ames Professor at the University of Washington. His best-known book, The Story of Art (1950) has been translated into 29 languages.

Review:

"I have learned a great deal from this volume, but what I shall remember about it is the author's warmth and wit, the fabulous range of his references and the richness of personality that lies behind the whole performance." (The New York Times)

"Gombrich himself is a remarkable intellect, graceful, subtle, profoundly logical and given to using logic to open questions rather than to close them." (The New Republic)

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0691097852
• ISBN 13: 9780691097855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 466