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Meditations on a Hobby Horse Leonie Gombrich

Meditations on a Hobby Horse By Leonie Gombrich

Meditations on a Hobby Horse by Leonie Gombrich

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14 essays focusing on issues raised by 20th-century art and theory.

Meditations on a Hobby Horse Summary

Meditations on a Hobby Horse: And Other Essays on the Theory of Art by Leonie Gombrich

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.

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A worthy successor to the earlier books, exhibiting to a high degree their author's supreme merit as a theorist of art.-New Statesman

About Leonie Gombrich

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.

Table of Contents

Meditations on a hobby horse or the roots of artistic form; visual metaphors of value in art; psychoanalysis and the history of art; on physiognomic perception; expression and communication; achievement in medieval art; Andre Malraux and the crisis of expressionism; the social history of art; tradition and expression in Western still life; art and scholarship; imagery and art in the romantic period; the cartoonist's armoury; the vogue of abstract art; illusion and visual deadlock.

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GOR002687608
9780714832456
0714832456
Meditations on a Hobby Horse: And Other Essays on the Theory of Art by Leonie Gombrich
Leonie Gombrich
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Phaidon Press Ltd
19940929
256
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