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Art and illusion

a study in the psychology of pictorial representation

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An edition of Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation (1960)

Art and illusion

a study in the psychology of pictorial representation

Millennium ed., with a new preface by the author

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"Considered a great classic by all who seek 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 main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders."--BOOK JACKET.

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Princeton University Press
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English
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466

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Visual perception, Art, Psychology, Composition (Art), Kunstpsychologie, Art, psychology, Psychologie, Waarneming, Visualisatie, Kunst, Arte E Psicologia, Kunstbetrachtung, Malerei

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Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation
2000, Princeton University Press
in English - Millennium ed., with a new preface by the author
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Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation : the A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 1956, National Gallery of Art, Washington
1972, Princeton University Press for the Bollingen Foundation
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Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation
1961, Bollingen Foundation, distributed by] Pantheon Books
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Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation.
1960, Pantheon Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-441) and index

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Bollingen series, 35. The A. W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts -- 5

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xliv, 466 p. :
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