Gombrich, E. H.

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.

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