The preference for the primitive : episodes in the history of Western taste and art / E.H. Gombrich.
Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2006Description: 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 0714846325; 9780714846323Subject(s): Art -- Themes, motives | Aesthetics | Primitivism in artDDC classification: 709 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Plato's preferences -- Interlude : progress or decline? -- The ascendancy of the sublime -- The pre-Raphaelite ideal -- The quest for spirituality -- The emancipation of formal values -- Interlude : new worlds and new myths -- The twentieth century: The lure of regression (1) ; The lure of regression (2) -- Primitive, in what sense? -- The study of antiquities.
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Originally published: 2002.
Plato's preferences -- Interlude : progress or decline? -- The ascendancy of the sublime -- The pre-Raphaelite ideal -- The quest for spirituality -- The emancipation of formal values -- Interlude : new worlds and new myths -- The twentieth century: The lure of regression (1) ; The lure of regression (2) -- Primitive, in what sense? -- The study of antiquities.
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