In a wide-ranging discussion which takes in both 'high' and 'low'
art from fresco painting to outdoor sculpture, caricature and
political propaganda, the art history master Gombrich returns to
some familiar themes - the function of images and how they change
over time. Further aspects of the uses of images are explored in
his essays on the hanging of pictures and on the use (or misuse) of
images as historical evidence. (Kirkus UK)
In this volume, the tenth in the series of his collected essays,
Professor Gombrich returned to themes that long preoccupied him in
his study of visual imagery of all kinds. Central to these pivotal
essays is a consuming interest in the functions of images, and how
these functions, in addition to the images themselves, evolve over
time. In wide-ranging studies of both so-called 'high' and 'low'
art - from fresco painting, altar painting, the International
Gothic Style and outdoor sculpture to doodles, pictorial
instructions, caricature and political propaganda - Gombrich
examines a broad spectrum of key questions. These include the role
of supply and demand, competition and display, the 'ecology' of
images, the idea of 'feedback' in the interplay of means and ends,
and the ways in which developing skills in turn stimulate new
demands. Gombrich explores in depth such specific aspects of the
uses of images as the hanging of pictures and the use (or misuse)
of images as historical evidence. Extensive in its scope and
surgically precise in its focus, The Uses of Images signifies yet
another landmark corpus of work by the prolific Professor Gombrich,
in a subtle but striking tour de force.
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