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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd; New edition edition (16 Mar 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0714839698
ISBN-13: 978-0714839691
Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 17.2 x 2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 551,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This is a collection of essays by the world's most famous art historian E.H. Gombrich. In this wide-ranging volume (the tenth in the series), Professor Gombrich focuses on the role of supply and demand in the creation of images of all kinds. In so doing, he brings together and develops many of the ideas and themes in the social history of art that have preoccupied him through a lifetime of research and reflection.

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Uneven essays 1 July 2002

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Gombrich is obviously an intelligent essayist well versed in the history of art and culture. Unfortunately, he knows a lot more than most of us. He too often refers to art, movements and people that the even more familiar art reader may not be very familiar with.

Many of these essays bring up interesting ideas and they are worth reading. However, the essays often read incomplete. The editor and/or author should have worked more on integrating, expanding or updating the information in book form.

Just take a look at the library and you will probably be satisfied.

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