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Author | Ernst Gombrich |
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Language | English |
Genre | Art history |
Publisher | Pantheon Books ( Bollingen series) |
Publication date | 1960 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 443pp. |
ISBN | 0691097852 |
Art and Illusion, A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, is a 1960 book of art theory and history by Ernst Gombrich, derived from the 1956 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. The book had a wide impact in art history, [1] but also in history (e.g. Carlo Ginzburg, who called it "splendid" [2]), aesthetics (e.g. Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art [3]), semiotics ( Umberto Eco's Theory of Semiotics [4]), and music psychology ( Robert O. Gjerdingen's schema theory of Galant style music).
In Art and Illusion, Gombrich argues for the importance of "schemata" in analyzing works of art: he claims that artists can only learn to represent the external world by learning from previous artists, so representation is always done using stereotyped figures and methods.
![]() First edition | |
Author | Ernst Gombrich |
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Language | English |
Genre | Art history |
Publisher | Pantheon Books ( Bollingen series) |
Publication date | 1960 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | |
Pages | 443pp. |
ISBN | 0691097852 |
Art and Illusion, A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, is a 1960 book of art theory and history by Ernst Gombrich, derived from the 1956 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. The book had a wide impact in art history, [1] but also in history (e.g. Carlo Ginzburg, who called it "splendid" [2]), aesthetics (e.g. Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art [3]), semiotics ( Umberto Eco's Theory of Semiotics [4]), and music psychology ( Robert O. Gjerdingen's schema theory of Galant style music).
In Art and Illusion, Gombrich argues for the importance of "schemata" in analyzing works of art: he claims that artists can only learn to represent the external world by learning from previous artists, so representation is always done using stereotyped figures and methods.