Art and Illusion (eBook)

A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation - Millennium Edition

E. H. Gombrich (Autor)

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2023
512 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25274-2 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century's most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most influential art historians of the twentieth century, and Art and Illusion is generally agreed to be his most important book. Bridging science and the humanities, this classic work examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of modern theories of information and learning in visual perception. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines ideas about the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments, he ranges over the history of art, from the ancient Greeks, Leonardo, and Rembrandt to the impressionists and the cubists. But the triumphant originality of Art and Illusion is that Gombrich is less concerned with the artists than with the psychological experience of the viewers of their work.Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 320 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Alain, [Daniel]: cartoon, *2 • ambiguity: deliberate • Anscombe, G. E. M. • art criticism: academic • art: emancipation of • Borenius, Tancred • brushstrokes • Clark, Sir Kenneth • Connoisseurship • distance: beholder’s • Fowler, H. N. • Gilson, Etienne • Giotto di Bondone • Gombrich, E. H. • Greek art: canon of • illusion: character of • image: in accidental forms • information: and incomplete image • interpretation: artist’s • Koller, H. • memory: Churchill on • mirror image: compared to painting • nonfigurative art • painting: action • Storey, G. A. • style: categories of • “switching”: and ambiguity • transformation: in illusion • Trees • trick drawings • Velazquez, Diego • Wittgenstein, Ludwig • Zangwill
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25274-2 / 0691252742
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25274-2 / 9780691252742