Art and Illusion (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: E. H. Gombrich
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Philosophy/psychology/art history
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Arts, Psychology
- Subjects: Culture, Perception, Education or educators, Art or artists, Creative process, Imagination, Painting or painters, Pictures, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Learning or scholarship
Form and Content
While Art and Illusion as published is divided into eleven chapters and four parts, the lectures on which the work is based were symmetrical; the introduction is a full segment, similar in length to the chapters, and flows directly into a first part which has but two chapters of its own. The reader is informed that one could go directly from the introduction, titled “Psychology and the Riddle of Style,” to chapter 9, “The Analysis of Vision in Art,” which begins part 4 (the final part). Nevertheless, the intervening portions were integral to the...
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