Most Popular Books by E.H. Gombrich

An illustrated introduction to art appreciation with a survey of the major art periods and styles and descriptions of the work and world of the masters.

Ernst Gombrich pays tribute to a varied selection of scholars and critics.

Combining text with hundreds of full-colour illustrations, this book traces the history of art in an unfolding narrative, from primitive cave paintings to modern controversial art works.

A collection of essays on values and their place in humanity.

Volume 2 in Gombrich''s influential series of essays on the Renaissance.

Professor Gombrich''s last book and first narrative work in over 20 years.

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.

In the fourth and concluding volume of his classic series of essays on the Renaissance, Ernst Gombrich focuses mainly on individual artists, with illuminating studies of the works of some of the greatest masters - Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Giulio Romano and Michelangelo. With the originality of mind and lucidity of expression that are his hallmarks, he re-examines texts and documents in order to throw new light on familiar works. Undogmatic in their approach to methods of inquiry, and demonstrating a profound concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage, these essays are not only models of good art-historical writing, but they also represent a vitally important humanistic tradition in scholarship and criticism.

A collection of short articles, lectures etc.

14 essays focusing on issues raised by 20th-century art and theory.

An intriguing overview of art and our perception of it.

Volume 1 in Gombrich''s influential series of essays on the Renaissance.

Volume 3 in Gombrich''s influential series of essays on the Renaissance.