IMAGE AND THE EYE,THE FURTHER STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY - Hardcover

GOMBRICH E H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714822450 ISBN 13: 9780714822457

Publisher: PHAIDON PRESS, 1982

Synopsis

Worn dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, some light marking to page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

About this title

About the Author:

Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes. Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.

Review:

"A generous clarity of style and a quite breathtaking amplitude of reference. Gombrich's unique combination of wisdom and curiosity is exhilarating."-The Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: PHAIDON PRESS
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0714822450
• ISBN 13: 9780714822457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320