Gombrich 1909 2001 (66 results)

PAPERBACK, original price $14.95, very good, probably unused. GOMBRICH, E. H. A Little History of the World. Translated by Caroline Mustill. Preface by Leonie Gombrich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, later printing number line ending in 4, 284pp., . First published by Gombrich in German in Austria in 1936. - Preface by Leonie Gombrich explains revisions made to this edition. ISBN 9780300143324.…

PAPERBACK, original price $12.95, fresh attractive copy, appears unused. GOMBRICH, E. H. A Little History of the World. Translated by Caroline Mustill. Preface by Leonie Gombrich. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, 1st printing number line ending in 1, 284pp., . First published by Gombrich in German in Austria in 1936. - Preface by Leonie Gombrich explains revisions made to this edition. ISBN 9780300143324.…

, Gombrich, E. H., 1909-2001, (contributor). Art, perception and reality. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973, x, 136pp., PAPERBACK, cover quite scuffed and rubbed around edges, otherwise good copy. Cover design by Victoria Dudley. E.H. Gombrich, Julian Hochberg, Max Black. - CONTENTS: The mask and the face: the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art / E.H. Gombrich -- The representation of things and people / Julian Hochberg -- How do pictures represent? / Max Black -- Postscrpt / E.H. Gombrich. 9780801815522 ISBN 0801815525. …

Gombrich, E. H., 1909-2001. Kunst und Fortschritt: Wirkung und Wandlung einer Idee. Vom Verfasser besorgte Bearbeitung und Übersetzung aus dem Englischen. Köln: DuMont, 1978, Deutsche. Erstveröffentlichung, 136pp., PAPERBACK, very good lightly used copy but with light creases on spine, cheap glued binding. DuMont-Kunst-Taschenbücher, 70. - First appeared in English in 1971. 9783770110735 ISBN 3770110730.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: good dust-jacket worn around edges and a bit scraped and scratched, price label on front flap $59.95, very good gray cloth, slight skew from shelving. "Phaidon non mint copy" stamp on front endpaper but I cannot find any defects. black remainder dot on bottom foredge. GOMBRICH, E. H. The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art. London ; New York: Phaidon, 2002, 324pp., . This book, the last to be completed by the author, is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that have become soft and decadent. In his first narrative work for over twenty years, Gombrich traces this idea back to classical antiquity and links it both with Cicero's observation that over-indulgence of the senses leads to a feeling of disgust, and with the profoundly influential metaphor comparing the development of art to that of a living organism. Like an organism, art grows to maturity, then decays and dies, and successive generations of artists and critics have preferred the strength, nobility and sincerity of earlier styles to the more refined later styles with their corrupting and meretricious appeal to the senses. Summing up more than forty years of study and reflection on this theme, the book presents a closely argued narrative supported by extensive quotations that document with precision the role of authors, critics and artists in shaping and changing opinion. After reviewing the classical authors whose writings largely set the terms of the debate, Gombrich then charts its progress from its revival in the eighteenth century, documenting the often subtle shifts of taste and judgment that frequently focus on the pivotal role of Raphael in the history of taste. In the final chapters he turns to the truly revolutionary primitivism of the twentieth century, analyzing the momentous shifts of taste of which he was himself an eyewitness. Important both as a personal testament and as a documentary anthology, this long-awaited book fittingly provides a deep and revealing insight into the history and psychology of taste. - CONTENTS: Plato's preferences -- Interlude : progress or decline? -- The ascendancy of the sublime -- The pre-Raphaelite ideal -- The quest for spirituality -- The emancipation of formal values -- Interlude : new worlds and new myths -- The twentieth century : The lure of regression (1) ; The lure of regression (2) -- Primitive, in what sense? -- The study of antiquities. 9780714841540 ISBN 0714841544 41.20.…

, Gombrich, E. H., 1909-2001. Kokoschka in his time : lecture given at the Tate Gallery on 2 July 1986. London : The Gallery, 1986, 32pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good but slight wear around edges of cover. 9780946590582 ISBN 0946590583.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 191 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Originally published as vol. 4 of the series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Artists Italy. Art, Renaissance Italy. 1 Kg. …

5th edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents inmclude:- An autobiographical sketch -- The embattled humanities: the universities in crisis -- Relativism in the humanities: the deabate about human nature -- Relativism in the history of ideas -- Relativism in the appreciation of art -- Approaches to the history of art: three points for discussion -- The conservation of our cities: Ruskin's message for today -- Watching artists at work: commitment and improvisation in the history of drawing -- Plato in modern dress: two eyewitness accounts of the origins of Cubism -- Kokoschka in his time -- Image and word in Twentieth-Century art -- The wit of Saul Steinberg -- A master of poster design: Abram Games -- The photographer as artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Subjects; Cartier-Bresson, Henri 1908-2004. Games, Abram 1914-1996. 1900-1999. Art, Modern 20th century. Learning and scholarship History 20th century. Cultural relativism. Art Philosophy. Art, Modern 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Modernism (Art) 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. sewn PAPERBACK, near fine. GOMBRICH, E. H. Il gusto dei primitivi: le radici della ribellione. Traduzione di Sara Benaim. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1985, 34pp. 22 cm, . Memorie dell'Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici, 11. 9788870881158 ISBN 8870881156 3.30.

1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 191 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Originally published as vol. 4 of the series: Studies in the art of the Renaissance. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Artists Italy. Art, Renaissance Italy. 1 Kg. …

5th edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents inmclude:- An autobiographical sketch -- The embattled humanities: the universities in crisis -- Relativism in the humanities: the deabate about human nature -- Relativism in the history of ideas -- Relativism in the appreciation of art -- Approaches to the history of art: three points for discussion -- The conservation of our cities: Ruskin's message for today -- Watching artists at work: commitment and improvisation in the history of drawing -- Plato in modern dress: two eyewitness accounts of the origins of Cubism -- Kokoschka in his time -- Image and word in Twentieth-Century art -- The wit of Saul Steinberg -- A master of poster design: Abram Games -- The photographer as artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Subjects; Cartier-Bresson, Henri 1908-2004. Games, Abram 1914-1996. 1900-1999. Art, Modern 20th century. Learning and scholarship History 20th century. Cultural relativism. Art Philosophy. Art, Modern 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Modernism (Art) 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 1. Physical description; viii, 308 pages to 140 pages of plates : ill ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art, Renaissance Italy. Composition. Renaissance period. European visual arts. History. Bibliography. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Bollingen series, 35. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 5. Physical description; xxxi, 466 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art Psychology. Bollingen series. Fine arts lectures. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 270p: ill, facsims; 25cm. Notes: Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Boas, George 1891-1980. Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939. Scholars Europe Biography. Art criticism Europe. Culture. Scholars Europe Biography Addresses, essays, lectures. Classical studies. Hegel, G.W.F. Huizinga, J. Kris, Ernst. Kurz, Otto. Lessing, G.E. Warburg, Aby. Intellectual life. Humanism. Art Philosophy. Culture History. Critics. Humanism. Aesthetics. Philosophy. Psychology. Social Sciences. Arts and society. Communication in art.Civilization, Modern. Art Nature Study History. Humanities. Europe Intellectual life 18th century. Europe Intellectual life 19th century. Europe Intellectual life 20th century. Genre: Essays. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 224 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents include: Part I. Values in history. Part II. Values in art. Subjects; Values Addresses, essays, lectures. Art Philosophy Addresses, essays, lectures. History Philosophy Addresses, essays, lectures. Values in history. Values in art. Values. Philosophy Art. Art Philosophy. History Philosophy. Values Philosophy. Culture History. Arts. Values. Expression Concept of. Art Philosophy of. Taste In the arts. Art History. Civilization History. Museums History. Aesthetics. Arts. Value. Aesthetics. Value. Art Philosophy. History Philosophy. Philosophy of art. Arts Role of values Essays. art history philosophy values. Art criticism. Genres; Essays. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Gombrich, E. H., 1909-2001. Kunst und Kritik. Aus dem Englischen von Lisbeth Gombrich. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1993, 295pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth. Translation of Reflections on the history of art. 9783608761535 ISBN 3608761535.

Second Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 1. Physical description; viii, 308 pages to 140 pages of plates : ill ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art, Renaissance Italy. Composition. Renaissance period. European visual arts. History. Bibliography. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Bollingen series, 35. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 5. Physical description; xxxi, 466 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Art Psychology. Bollingen series. Fine arts lectures. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 270p: ill, facsims; 25cm. Notes: Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Boas, George 1891-1980. Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939. Scholars Europe Biography. Art criticism Europe. Culture. Scholars Europe Biography Addresses, essays, lectures. Classical studies. Hegel, G.W.F. Huizinga, J. Kris, Ernst. Kurz, Otto. Lessing, G.E. Warburg, Aby. Intellectual life. Humanism. Art Philosophy. Culture History. Critics. Humanism. Aesthetics. Philosophy. Psychology. Social Sciences. Arts and society. Communication in art.Civilization, Modern. Art Nature Study History. Humanities. Europe Intellectual life 18th century. Europe Intellectual life 19th century. Europe Intellectual life 20th century. Genre: Essays. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 224 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents include: Part I. Values in history. Part II. Values in art. Subjects; Values Addresses, essays, lectures. Art Philosophy Addresses, essays, lectures. History Philosophy Addresses, essays, lectures. Values in history. Values in art. Values. Philosophy Art. Art Philosophy. History Philosophy. Values Philosophy. Culture History. Arts. Values. Expression Concept of. Art Philosophy of. Taste In the arts. Art History. Civilization History. Museums History. Aesthetics. Arts. Value. Aesthetics. Value. Art Philosophy. History Philosophy. Philosophy of art. Arts Role of values Essays. art history philosophy values. Art criticism. Genres; Essays. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: ill. (some col.); 25 cm. Subjects: National Gallery (London) (Perm.)Shades and shadows in art; Exhibitions. Visual perception; Exhibitions. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled and sun-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Endpapers faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall, with the interior tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: from the library of Sir Lawrence Gowing. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 2. Physical description; viii, 247 pages, [96] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 map ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: page 236. Contents; Aims and limits of iconology -- Tobias and the angel -- Botticelli's mythologies : a study in the neo-Platonic symbolism of his circle -- An interpretation of Mantegna's Parnassus -- Raphael's Stanza della segnatura and the nature of its symbolism -- Hypnerotomachiana -- The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te -- The subject of Poussin's Orion -- Icones symbolicae : philosophies of symbolism and their bearing on art. Subjects; Symbolism in art. Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled and dust-toned dust-wrapper, with spine uniformly sun-toned, and now mylar-sleeved. Cloth covers sun-toned at the margins, with endpapers faintly foxed. Remains otherwise tight, bright and clean, with especially sharp corners; a well-preserved copy overall. Provenance: from the library of Sir Lawrence Gowing. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 3. Physical description; viii, 250 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index. Contents; Lights and highlights. The heritage of Apelles ; Light, form and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps -- Leonardo da Vinci's method of analysis and permutation ; The form of movement in water and air ; The grotesque heads -- Jerome Bosch's 'Garden of earthly delights' ; The earliest description of the triptych ; 'As was due in the days of Noe' -- Classical rules and rational standards ; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi ; The leaven of criticism of Renaissance art: texts and episodes ; The pride of Apelles: Vives, Dürer and Bruegel. Subjects; Apelles. Art, Renaissance. Art technique. Composition (Art). 20th century. Illustrated. Colour plates. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 64 pages: ill. (some col.); 25 cm. Subjects: National Gallery (London) (Perm.)Shades and shadows in art; Exhibitions. Visual perception; Exhibitions. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, 223 pp; 158 illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Originally published in volume form 1982. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects: Picture perception Psychological aspects; Visual perception Psychological aspects; Art Psychology; Aesthetics; Art theory; Psychology - artistic representation. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled and sun-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Endpapers faintly foxed. Remains well-preserved overall, with the interior tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance: from the library of Sir Lawrence Gowing. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 2. Physical description; viii, 247 pages, [96] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 map ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: page 236. Contents; Aims and limits of iconology -- Tobias and the angel -- Botticelli's mythologies : a study in the neo-Platonic symbolism of his circle -- An interpretation of Mantegna's Parnassus -- Raphael's Stanza della segnatura and the nature of its symbolism -- Hypnerotomachiana -- The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te -- The subject of Poussin's Orion -- Icones symbolicae : philosophies of symbolism and their bearing on art. Subjects; Symbolism in art. Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-dulled and dust-toned dust-wrapper, with spine uniformly sun-toned, and now mylar-sleeved. Cloth covers sun-toned at the margins, with endpapers faintly foxed. Remains otherwise tight, bright and clean, with especially sharp corners; a well-preserved copy overall. Provenance: from the library of Sir Lawrence Gowing. Series; Studies in the art of the Renaissance ; 3. Physical description; viii, 250 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index. Contents; Lights and highlights. The heritage of Apelles ; Light, form and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps -- Leonardo da Vinci's method of analysis and permutation ; The form of movement in water and air ; The grotesque heads -- Jerome Bosch's 'Garden of earthly delights' ; The earliest description of the triptych ; 'As was due in the days of Noe' -- Classical rules and rational standards ; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi ; The leaven of criticism of Renaissance art: texts and episodes ; The pride of Apelles: Vives, Dürer and Bruegel. Subjects; Apelles. Art, Renaissance. Art technique. Composition (Art). 20th century. Illustrated. Colour plates. 1 Kg.…

, Gombrich, E. H., 1909-2001, (contributor). Aby Warburg. Zum Gedächtnis. Hamburg : Im Selbstverlag der Universität, 1966, 46pp., stapled PAPERBACK, very good, glossy paper slightly darkened around edges, handwritten correction in ink on page 20 correcting the name "Ludwig" Justi to "Karl". Hamburger Universitätsreden, 34. Karl-Heinz Schäfer, Begrüßung durch den Rektor (9-14), Ernst H. Gombrich, Festvortrag (15-36), Carl Georg Heise, Schlußwort (37-46). Title page reads: Aby Warburg *13. Juni 1866 t 26. Oktober 1929. Gedenkfeier anläßlich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages am Montag, dem 13. Juni 1966 im Hörsaal A der Universität. …

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Series; Wrightsman lectures ; volume 9. Physical description; xii, 411 p., p. of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. -323) and index. Subjects; Decoration and ornament. Themes, motives. Visual form perception. Art. Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. Art theory. Aesthetics. 1 Kg. …