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Informationen zum Autor Sir 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. Klappentext This volume reflects Professor Gombrich's lifelong interest in the social dynamics that help to determine the course art takes. It discusses the role of supply and demand! the 'ecology' of images! the idea of 'feedback' as developing skills in turn stimulate new demands! and the use (or misuse) of images as historical evidence. Zusammenfassung A study of the social functions of images! and their evolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Means and ends - reflections on the history of fresco painting; evolution in the arts - the altar painting! its ancestry and progeny; supply and demand in the evolution of styles - the example of international Gothic; pictures for the home; sculptures for outdoors; the dream of reason -symbolism of the French Revolution; magic! myth and metaphor - reflections on pictorial satire; pleasures of boredom - four centuries of doodles; pictorial instructions; what art tells us; styles of art and styles of life. ...
