Main entry:

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.

Title & Author:

Reflections on the history of art : views and reviews / E.H. Gombrich ; edited by Richard Woodfield.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1987.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Reprints of articles originally published 1949-1985.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- The art of the Greeks -- Chinese lanscape painting -- Tribal styles -- A Medieval motif -- Expressions of despair -- The impact of black death -- New revelations on fresco painting -- Kenneth Clark's Piero Della Francesca -- The repentance of Judas -- Seeking a key to Leonardo -- Leonardo in the history of science -- The marvel of Leonardo -- Michelangelo's last piantings -- The rhetoric of attribution-a cautionary tale -- The worship of ancient sculpture -- Patrons and painters in Baroque Italy -- Dutch genre painting -- Mapping and painting in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century -- The mastery of Rubens -- On Rembrandt -- Adam's house in Paradise -- Painted ancedotes -- The whirligig of taste -- The anatomy of art collecting -- The claims of excellence -- The meaning of beauty -- Should a museum be active? -- The beauty of old towns/ Dilemas of modern art criticism/ Malraux on art and myth -- Freud's aesthetics -- Includes appendix: signs, language, and beahviour, sources of photographs, and index.

ISBN:

0520061896
9780520061897

Subject:

Art History.
Art Histoire.
art history.
Art
Geschichte
Kunst
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Woodfield, Richard.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 11309
Call No.: ID:87-B14072
Status: Available