| Foreword by E. H. Gombrich |
7 |
| Introduction by Richard Woodfield |
9 |
| Principal Works of E. H. Gombrich |
18 |
| Part I Autobiographical |
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| An Autobiographical Sketch Topics of our Time
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21 |
| Old Masters and Other Household Gods Independent,
1990 |
37 |
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| Part II The Visual Image |
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| The Visual Image: its Place in Communication The
image and the Eye |
41 |
| On Art and Artists The Story of Art |
65 |
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| Part III Art and Psychology |
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| Psychology and the Riddle of Style Art and Illusion |
83 |
| Truth and the Stereotype Art and Illusion |
89 |
| Action and Expression in Western Art The Image and the
Eye |
113 |
| Illusion and Art Illusion in Nature and in Art, 1973
|
139 |
| The Use of Colour and its Effect: the How and the Why Radio
interview with Bridget Riley, 1992 |
161 |
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| Part IV Tradition and Innovation |
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| The Necessity of Tradition: an Interpretation of the Poetics
of I. A. Richards Tributes |
169 |
| Verbal Wit as a Paradigm of Art: the Aesthetic Theories of
Sigmund Freud Tributes |
189 |
| Leonardo's Method for Working out Compositions Norm and
Form |
211 |
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| Part V Psychology and the Decorative Arts |
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| The Force of Habit The Sense of Order |
223 |
| The Psychology of Styles The Sense of Order |
257 |
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| Part VI Primitivism and the Primitive |
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| The Primitive and its Value in Art Four radio talks,
1979 |
295 |
| Magic, Myth and Metaphor: Reflections on Pictorial Satire
Paper delivered to the Congrès International d'Histoire de l'Art,
1989 |
331 |
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| Part VII On the Nature of Art History |
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| Approaches to the History of Art: Three Points for Discussion
Topics of our Time |
355 |
| The Social History of Art Meditations on a Hobby Horse
|
369 |
| In Search of Cultural History Ideals and Idols |
381 |
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| Part VIII Alternatives to the 'Spirit of the Age' |
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| Architecture and Rhetoric in Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Tè
New Light on Old Masters |
401 |
| From the Revival of Letters to the Reform of the Arts: Niccolò
Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi The Heritage of Apelles |
411 |
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| Part IX On the Meanings of Works of Art |
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| The Use of Art for the Study of Symbols American Psychologist
1965 |
437 |
| Aims and Limits of Iconology Symbolic Images
|
457 |
| Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the Nature of its Symbolism
Symbolic Images |
485 |
| The Subject of Poussin's Orion Symbolic Images |
515 |
| Dutch Genre Painting Reflections on the History of Art
|
521 |
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| Part X High Art and Popular Culture |
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| Imagery and Art in the Romantic Period Meditations on a
Hobby Horse |
529 |
| The Wit of Saul Steinberg Topics of our Time |
539 |
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| Part XI Gombrich from Within Tradition |
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| Franz Schubert and the Vienna of his Time Address celebrating
the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, 1978 |
547 |
| Nature and Art as Needs of the Mind: the Philanthropic Ideals
of Lord Levethulme Tributes |
565 |
| Goethe: the Mediator of Classical Values Speech delivered
on receiving the Goethe Prize,1994 |
585 |
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| Notes |
591 |
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| Index |
615 |