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This is a collection of essays by the world's most famous art historian E.H.ombrich. In this wide-ranging volume (the tenth in the series), Professorombrich focuses on the role of supply and demand in the creation of imagesf all kinds. In so doing, he brings together and develops many of the ideasnd themes in the social history of art that have preoccupied him through aifetime of research and reflection.

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.

Introduction

6

(8)

Paintings on Walls

14

(34)

Paintings for Altars

48

(32)

Images as Luxury Objects

80

(28)

Pictures for the Home

108

(28)

Sculpture for Outdoors

136

(26)

The Dream of Reason

162

(22)

Magic, Myth and Metaphor

184

(28)

Pleasures of Boredom

212

(14)

Pictorial Instructions

226

(14)

Styles of Art and Styles of Life

240

(22)

What Art Tells Us

262

(12)

Notes

274

(19)

Index

293

(10)

Photographic Acknowledgements

303

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The Uses of Images

The Uses of Images

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