Meditations on a Hobby Horse
And Other Essays on the Theory of Art
14 essays focusing on issues raised by 20th-century art and theory.
E H Gombrich
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- The first and most famous of Professor Gombrich's enormously influential volumes of collected essays, first published in 1963
- Contains 14 essays focusing on issues raised by 20th-century art and theory, and presenting many of Gombrich's most important statements on theory and method
- Taking abstraction and expression as their main themes, these essays encompass the whole of the history of art, including major articles on the social history of art, visual metaphor, tradition and expression, and psychoanalysis
- Paperback
- English
- 245 x 172 mm, 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in
- 256 pp
- 140 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714832456
- ISBN-10: 0714832456
Prompted by modern critical discussions, the 14 papers, lectures and articles assembled in this volume revolve around key issues raised by twentieth-century art and theory.
Taking abstraction and expression as his main themes, this eclectic assortment of Professor Gombrich's monumental essays encompass the whole of the history of art, and includes major articles on the social history of art, visual metaphor, tradition and expression, and psychoanalysis.
Characteristic of his thought-provoking use of diverse sources for inspiration and exploration, this book embodies a timelessly powerful corpus of Gombrich's ground-breaking thought.
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.
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