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1	A Little History of the World more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Caroline Mustill (Translator) In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and "Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser" was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in twenty ... see all copies from $7.20! new only from $7.20! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Story of Art - 16th Edition more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence of new "endings" have been added, and the captions ... see all copies from $6.10! new only from $14.99! \| SVS
3	Story of Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich "The Story of Art", one of the best-known and best-loved books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over half a century. Professor Gombrich's clear and engaging text combines with hundreds of full-colour illustrations to trace the history of art in an unfolding narrative, from primitive cave paintings to controversial art works of ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $13.81! \| SVS
4	Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich "Art and Illusion" is a classic study of image-making. It seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? The question may be simple but there is no easy answer, and Professor Gombrich's wide-ranging exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him into many important areas. He examines, ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $26.26! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich This book is a classic study of image-making, which seeks the answer to an apparently simple but fundamental question: Why is there such a thing as style? In his wide-ranging exploration of the history of representation, Professor Gombrich examines old and new ideas on the imitation of nature, the function of tradition, the problem of abstraction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
6	The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich This is a documentary study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling that older and less sophisticated or "primitive" works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that have become refined, soft and decadent. Gombrich traces the existence of such feelings right back to ... see all copies from $7.40! new only from $13.18! \| first editions
7	The Essential Gombrich more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Richard Woodfield (Editor) Professor E.H. Gombrich is acknowledged as one of the most influential scholars and thinkers of the 20th century. His writings include three major narrative works - "The Story of Art", "Art and Illusion" and "The Sense of Order" - and ten volumes of collected essays and reviews. This anthology presents a selection from all these books, as well as ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $25.68! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Meditations on a hobby horse and other essays on the theory of art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich 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 ... see all copies from $5.36! new only from $22.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Ideals & Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich The fifth volume of E.H. Gombrich's collected essays deals with values and their place in the humanities. Ranging in subject from the philosophy of Hegel to wartime propaganda broadcasts, the future of museums to the role of reason and feeling in the study of art, Gombrich consistently upholds the ideals of culture that are constantly under threat ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $90.40! \| first editions
10	Art, Perception, and Reality more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Professor Julian Hochberg, Professor Max Black "Three informed opinions on the classical question of representation...Provocative."--'Art Journal.' 'Softshell Books.' see all copies from $3.90! new only from $23.92! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich This book introduces the reader to the ideas and the personality of a scholar who exerted a major influence on the course of art-historical studies through his publications, through the Institute which bears his name, and through his disciples, who include some of the most eminent people in the field. At the same time it makes available a ... see all copies from $49.41! new only from $49.41!
12	The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich see all copies from $16.31! signed copies \| first editions
13	Kokoschka in His Time: Lecture Given at the Tate Gallery on 2 July 1986 more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich see all copies from $7.50! new only from $16.38!
14	Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich see all copies from $8.51! first editions
15	Art History and the Social Sciences more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich see all copies from $91.00!

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