The preference for the primitive. Episodes in the history of western taste and art - Softcover

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9780714846323: The preference for the primitive. Episodes in the history of western taste and art

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Professor gombrich's last book and first narrative book in over 20 years. Studies the idea that older and less Sophisticated (i.E. 'Primitive') artworks are moral and aesthetically superior to newer ones that in our present time are decadente.

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Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art.

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ISBN 10:  0714841544 ISBN 13:  9780714841540
Verlag: Phaidon, 2014
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