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Ideals and idols : essays on values in history and in art / E.H. Gombrich.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford [England] : Phaidon, 1979Description: 224 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0714820091
  • 9780714820095
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Ideals and idols.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 901
  • 700.1
LOC classification:
  • D16.8 .G646 1979
Contents:
[1.] Values in history: The tradition of general knowledge -- In search of cultural history -- The logic of Vanity fair: alternatives to historicism in the study of fashions, style and taste -- Myth and reality in German wartime broadcasts -- Research in the humanities: ideals and idols -- [2.] Values in art: Art and self-transcendence -- Art history and the social sciences -- Canons and values in the visual arts: a correspondence with Quentin Bell -- A plea for pluralism -- The museum: past, present and future -- Reason and feeling in the study of art.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

[1.] Values in history: The tradition of general knowledge -- In search of cultural history -- The logic of Vanity fair: alternatives to historicism in the study of fashions, style and taste -- Myth and reality in German wartime broadcasts -- Research in the humanities: ideals and idols -- [2.] Values in art: Art and self-transcendence -- Art history and the social sciences -- Canons and values in the visual arts: a correspondence with Quentin Bell -- A plea for pluralism -- The museum: past, present and future -- Reason and feeling in the study of art.

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