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The Uses of Images Leonie Gombrich

The Uses of Images By Leonie Gombrich

The Uses of Images by Leonie Gombrich

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A study of the social functions of images, and their evolution.

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The Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication by Leonie Gombrich

In this new volume - the tenth in the series of his collected essays - Professor Gombrich returns to themes that have long preoccupied him in his study of visual imagery of all kinds. Central to these essays is a consuming interest in the functions of images, and how these functions - and the images - change over time.

In wide-ranging studies of both 'high' and 'low' art, from fresco painting, altar painting, the International Gothic Style and outdoor sculpture to doodles, pictorial instructions, caricature and political propaganda, Gombrich discusses the role of supply and demand, competition and display, the 'ecology' of images and the idea of 'feedback' in the interplay of means and ends, as developing skills in turn stimulate new demands. He explores further aaspects of the uses of images in his essays on the hanging of pictures and on the use (or misuse) of images as historical evidence.

The Uses of Images Reviews

'It is, of course, wonderful.' (Paris Free Voice)

'He makes his lateral thinking and writing accessible to everyone, from politically-minded students to Sunday gallery visitors to the most rococo academics (the kind who never learn from his style) The range of illustrations, though all black and white, is enormous; the range overall is that of a great teachers mind at work and at play.' (RTE, Ireland)

'Gombrich has a genius for once that is the mot juste for presenting complex and highly original arguments not just with exceptional lucidity, but also with wit. For any reader who has heard him lecture, the mesmerising charm of his inimitable if much imitated speaking voice leaps off the page ' (Apollo)

About Leonie Gombrich

Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.

Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes.

Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.

Table of Contents

Means and ends - reflections on the history of fresco painting; evolution in the arts - the altar painting, its ancestry and progeny; supply and demand in the evolution of styles - the example of international Gothic; pictures for the home; sculpture for outdoors; the dream of reason - symbolism of the French Revolution; magic, myth and metaphor - reflections on pictorial satire; pleasures of boredom - four centuries of doodles; pictorial instructions; what art tells us; styles of art and styles of life.

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GOR013819230
9780714836553
0714836559
The Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication by Leonie Gombrich
Leonie Gombrich
Used - Like New
Hardback
Phaidon Press Ltd
1999-01-26
304
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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