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Meditations On a Hobby Horse and Other Essays On the Theory of Art

By E. H. Gombrich

Book information

Publisher
Phaidon Press
Year
1985
ISBN
0714832456, 9780714832456
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35652278 bytes)
Edition
4th
Pages
145\127
Time added
2016-08-27 16:50:48
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Description

Originally published in 1963, this book was the first volume to be published in the author's long and distinguished series of collected essays. In it he addresses fundamental questions about the nature of artistic achievement, the criteria of artistic value, and the role of language in understanding and interpreting images. These essays explore the problematic character of metaphors, analogies, symbols, myths, conventions and traditions in art and art-historical writing, and investigate the notions of representation, expression, abstraction and illusion.

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