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

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

E.H. Gombrich

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nonfiction art history philosophy
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Professor Gombrich's last book and first narrative book in over 20 years. Studies the idea that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') artworks are morally and aesthetically superior to newer ones that in our present time are decadent

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