The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art
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This monumental book - the last to be completed by the author - is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts: the feeling that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that are perceived as comparatively soft and decadent. In his first narrative work for over two decades, Professor Gombrich traces this fundamental idea back...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0714841544
ISBN13:9780714841540
Release Date:August 2002
Publisher:Phaidon Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:2.60 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"
Age Range:13 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 8 to Postsecondary
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