The essential Gombrich : selected writings on art and culture / edited by Richard Woodfield.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-614) and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Principal Works of E. H. Gombrich -- An Autobiographical Sketch -- Old Masters and Other Household Gods -- The Visual Image: its Place in Communication -- On Art and Artists -- Psychology and the Riddle of Style -- Truth and the Stereotype -- Action and Expression in Western Art -- Illusion and Art -- The Use of Colour and its Effect: the How and the Why (Radio interview, 1992) -- The Necessity of Tradition: an Interpretation of the Poetics of I. A. Richards -- Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art: the Aesthetic Theories of Sigmund Freud -- Leonardo's Method for Working out Compositions -- The Force of Habit -- The Psychology of Styles -- The Primitive and its Value in Art -- Magic, Myth and Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire -- Approaches to the History of Art: Three Points for Discussion -- The Social History of Art -- In Search of Cultural History -- Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Te -- From the Revival of Letters to the Reform of the Arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi -- The Use of Art for the Study of Symbols -- Aims and Limits of Iconology -- Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the Nature of its Symbolism -- The Subject of Poussin's Orion -- Dutch Genre Painting -- Imagery and Art in the Romantic Period -- The Wit of Saul Steinberg -- Franz Schubert and the Vienna of his Time (Address celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, 1978) -- Nature and Art as Needs of the Mind: the Philanthropic Ideals of Lord Leverhulme -- Goethe: the Mediator of Classical Values (Speech delivered on receiving the Goethe Prize, 1994) -- Notes -- Index.

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