Art and Illusion, A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, is a 1960 book of art theory and history by Ernst Gombrich, derived from the 1956 . The book had a wide impact in art history, but also in history (e.g. Carlo Ginzburg, who called it "splendid"), aesthetics (e.g. Nelson Goodman's Languages of Art), semiotics (Umberto Eco's Theory of Semiotics), and music psychology (Robert O. Gjerdingen's schema theory of Galant style music).
In Art and Illusion, Gombrich argues for the importance of "schemata" in analyzing works of art: he claims that artists can only learn to represent the external world by learning from previous artists, so representation is always done using stereotyped figures and methods.
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Further reading
- Woodfield, Richard. Gombrich on Art and Psychology. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. 271 pp. .
- Trapp, J.B. E.H. Gombrich: A Bibliography. London, Phaidon 2000.
- Gombrich, E.H.J. & Eribon, D. Conversations on Art and Science. New York: Abrams 1993 (also published as: A Lifelong Interest.)
- Onians J. (ed.). Sight & Insight. Essays in honour of E.H. Gombrich. London: Phaidon 1994
- McGrath, Elizabeth.âÂÂE. H. GombrichâÂÂ, Burlington Magazine, 144 (2002), 111âÂÂ12
- Carlo Ginzburg, âÂÂFrom Aby Warburg to E.H. Gombrich: A Problem of MethodâÂÂ, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method, John and Anne C. Tedeschi, trans, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986, 17âÂÂ59
- Shone, Richard and Stonard, John-Paul, eds. The Books That Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013.
- Tononi, Fabio, âÂÂErnst Gombrich and the Concept of âÂÂIll-Defined AreaâÂÂ: Perception and Filling-InâÂÂ, Journal of Art Historiography, 29: 2 (2023), pp. 1âÂÂ27.
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