The preference for the primitive : episodes in the history of Western taste and art /
E.H. Gombrich.
- London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2006.
- 324 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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Art--Themes, motives. Aesthetics. Primitivism in art.