TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gombrich,E.H.
AU  - Woodfield,Richard
TI  - The essential Gombrich: selected writings on art and culture 
SN  - 0714830097
AV  - N7445.2 .G574 1996
U1  - 700.103 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Phaidon Press
KW  - Art
KW  - History
KW  - Art and society
N1  - 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; Also issued online
ER  -