Art and Illusion,9780691070001

Art and Illusion

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Edition: Millennium
ISBN13: 9780691070001
ISBN10: 0691070008
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-12-04
Publisher(s): Bollingen Foundation
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Summary

Considered a great classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments he ranges over the history of art, noticing particularly the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks, and the visual discoveries of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as the impressionists and the cubists. Gombrich's triumph in Art and Illusion arises from the fact that his main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface to the 2000 Edition xxv
Preface xxxvii
Preface to the Second Edition xli
Introduction: Psychology and the Riddle of Style 3(30)
PART ONE : THE LIMITS OF LIKENESS
From Light into Paint
33(30)
Truth and the Stereotype
63(30)
PART TWO: FUNCTION AND FORM
Pygmalion's Power
93(23)
Reflections on the Greek Revolution
116(30)
Formula and Experience
146(35)
PART THREE: THE BEHOLDER'S SHARE
The Image in the Clouds
181(22)
Conditions of Illusion
203(39)
Ambiguities of the Third Dimension
242(49)
PART FOUR: INVENTION AND DISCOVERY
The Analysis of Vision in Art
291(39)
The Experiment of Caricature
330(29)
From Representation to Expression
359(34)
Retrospect 393(6)
Notes 399(44)
Index 443

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