Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation | Style
Narration
Narration is the telling of a series of events, often in chronological order, and generally in a way that creates a story. Certainly, in his Story of Art, Gombrich creates a narrative that gives a sense of unity to the history of art. Likewise, in Art and Illusion, Gombrich’s stated purpose is to ‘‘explain why art has a history.’’ Although he begins with the nineteenth-century painter John Constable, Gombrich soon jumps back to early Greek art to begin his story of ‘‘making and matching.’’ Gombrich’s narration is one that traces...
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