The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste & Art by E.H. Gombrich

The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste & Art

E.H. Gombrich

324 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective slow-paced
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This book is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that ha...

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