Main entry:

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.

Title & Author:

The essential Gombrich : selected writings on art and culture / edited by Richard Woodfield.

Publication:

London : Phaidon Press, [1996]
©1996

Description:

624 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-614) and index.
Foreword / E.H. Gombrich -- Introduction / Richard Woodfield -- An Autobiographical Sketch -- Old Masters and Other Household Gods -- The Visual Image: its Place in Communication -- On Art and Artists -- Psychology and the Riddle of Style -- Truth and the Stereotype -- Action and Expression in Western Art -- Illusion and Art -- The Use of Colour and its Effect: the How and the Why (Radio interview, 1992) / Bridget Riley -- The Necessity of Tradition: an Interpretation of the Poetics of I.A. Richards -- Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art: the Aesthetic Theories of Sigmund Freud -- Leonardo's Method for Working out Compositions -- The Force of Habit -- The Psychology of Styles -- The Primitive and its Value in Art -- Magic, Myth and Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire -- Approaches to the History of Art: Three Points for Discussion -- The Social History of Art -- In Search of Cultural History -- Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Te.

Summary:

To the extent that any art historian becomes "famous," Sir Ernst Gombrich is the most famous art historian in the world. He is the author of the seminal work The Story of Art, a staunch champion of the traditional canon, and a perceptive analyst of artistry and illusion. This massive collection includes essays, excerpts from the groundbreaking Art and Illusion, autobiographical notes, and reflections on artists from Raphael to Saul Steinberg. Gombrich is not a modernist, and he has been criticized for his misunderstanding of abstract painting; but his conceptions of art encompass modern psychology and history, the study of gesture and ornament, and the social history of art. Above all, Gombrich stands against sweeping generalizations, maintaining that works of art "are not the results of some mysterious activity, but objects made by human beings for human beings."

Resources:
Table of contents
Review by Michael Kimmelman posted November 24, 1996, Late Edition - Final

ISBN:

0714830097 (hardback)
9780714830094 (hardback)
0714834874 (paperback)
9780714834870 (paperback)

Subject:

Gombrich, E. H. <1909-2001> - (Ernst Hans)
Gombrich, Ernst H., 1909-2001 Schrift.
Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.
Gombrich, Ernst Hans, (1909-2001) Anthologies.
Art.
20.30 history of art: general.
Geschichte
Kunst
Kunstpsychologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Cultuur.
Arte (teoria)
Art Psychological aspects.
Visual perception.
Critique d'art.
Psychologie de l'art.
Théorie de l'art.
Histoire de l'art.
Esthétique.
Société.
art [études diverses]
Gombrich, E.H.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Anthologies.
Writings.
works of art.
Art
Anthologie (Descripteur de forme).
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Woodfield, Richard.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224212
Call No.: N7480.8.G631.A35 1996
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available