Art History Reviewed VI: E.H. Gombrich's Art and Illusion : A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, 1960

• Autores: Christopher S. Wood
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1281, 2009, págs. 836-839
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The writer reconsiders E. H. Gombrich's 1960 book Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.Gombrich's account of the production of art as an experimental and even improvisational process impressed many readers beyond the academic discipline of art history. However, for 20 years or more, many art historians have considered his name a byword for a rationalist, Eurocentric, and naively naturalist approach to art with which they no longer would wish to be linked. While he was averse to avant-garde art, Gombrich's theories of the production and reception of art developed in Art and Illusion can easily be extended beyond representational art to abstract art and indeed any art. The process that Gombrich was describing is not “progress,” but rather an emergent process of learning.