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1	A Little History of the World more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Ralph Cosham (Read by) add to wishlist 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 $4.44! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Story of Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist This introduction to the history of art is meant to be read as a sequential narrative. The author--the distinguished art historian E. H. Gombrich--keeps things simple by referring only to the works of art, sculpture, and architecture that are reproduced in the book. Each subsequent edition has included more color photographs, an expanded and/or ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.49! \| SVS
3	Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist This book is a classical study of image-making, which seeks the answer to an apparently simple but fundamental question : why is there such a thing as style? see all copies from $2.34! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
4	Meditations on a hobby horse and other essays on the theory of art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist 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 $5.15! new only from $8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Essential Gombrich more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Richard Woodfield (Editor) add to wishlist 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 $8.45! new only from $19.94! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist 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 $9.15! new only from $14.25! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Art, Perception, and Reality more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich, Professor Julian Hochberg, Professor Max Black add to wishlist "Three informed opinions on the classical question of representation...Provocative."--'Art Journal.' 'Softshell Books.' see all copies from $3.02! new only from $21.40! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist A comprehensive survey of the history and theory of decorative art. Other work by the author includes "The Story of Art" and "Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation". see all copies from $4.65! new only from $22.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Symbolic images more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist These studies on the interpretation of images focus on the greatest artists of the Renaissance - notably Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo - and all reflect the author's concern with standards, values and problems of method. see all copies from $6.94! new only from $69.29! \| first editions
10	Ideals & Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist 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 $3.68! first editions
11 view cover	The Uses of Images more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist This is a collection of essays by the world's most famous art historian E.H. Gombrich. In this wide-ranging volume (the tenth in the series), Professor Gombrich focuses on the role of supply and demand in the creation of images of all kinds. In so doing, he brings together and develops many of the ideas and themes in the social history of art that ... see all copies from $8.49! new only from $18.73! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Tributes more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist In this seventh volume of his collected essays, Professor Gombrich pays tribute to a variety of illustrious figures to whom we owe the ideas and values which are woven into the fabric of our intellectual life. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $49.74! \| 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 add to wishlist see all copies from $5.72! new only from $18.25!
14	Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist see all copies from $8.95! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
16 view cover	Gombrich on the Renaissance - Volume 1: Norm and Form more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist Part of a four volume set of books which focus on and analyse the art of the Renaissance. This volume deals with some of the most fundamental questions of style, patronage, working methods, taste and theories of art during this period. see all copies from $8.00!
17 view cover	The Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist In this volume Professor Gombrich returns to themes that have long preoccupied him in his study of visual imagery of all kinds. Central to these essays is a consuming interest in the functions of images, and how these functions - and the images - change over time. In wide-ranging studies of both "high" and "low" art, from fresco painting, altar ... see all copies from $11.31! new only from $39.90!
18	Leonardo Da Vinci: Exhibition Catalogue more books like this by Mr. Martin Kemp, Professor E H Gombrich (Designer), Philip Stedman add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00!
19 view cover	The Image and the Eye: Further Studies in the Psychology of Pictorial ... more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist These essays on the pychology of pictorial representation form a companion volume to the author's influential "Art and Illusion". Writing on the central problems of perspective, on visual discoveries in art, on the representation of movement, expression, gesture and action, on the role of visual images in communication, on standards of truth in ... see all copies from $11.35!
20	Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $56.40! new only from $56.40!
21 view cover	Tributos more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist see all copies from $11.99! new only from $11.99!
22 view cover	Topics of Our Time more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist This collection of essays reflects Gombrich's concern with the central questions of value and tradition in culture. His topics include radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism, and a plea for the conservation of our cities. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.32! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Art History and the Social Sciences more books like this by Professor E H Gombrich add to wishlist see all copies from $91.00!

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