Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation | Critical Overview
When Art and Illusion was published in 1960, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. In an obituary appearing in Art in American shortly after Gombrich’s death in 2001, critics Stephanie Cash and David Ebony provide a retrospective of Gombrich’s work. They hail Art and Illusion as Gombrich’s ‘‘most influential volume.’’ They also note that Gombrich ‘‘rejected the notion that artistic change was the result of a collective mind or ‘spirit of the age.’ Instead Gombrich preferred to focus on how individual artists dealt with specific technical...
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