Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition

Gombrich, E.H. [Ernst Hans Josef]

ISBN 10: 0801417031 / ISBN 13: 9780801417030

Published by Cornell University Press, 1984

About this Item

First edition. Edges foxed, wrinkle to jacket. 1984 Hard Cover. 270 pp. Discusses the lives and work of eleven poets, critics, philanthropists, psychologists, art historians, and scholars.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801417031
• ISBN 13: 9780801417030
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Discusses the lives and work of eleven poets, critics, philanthropists, psychologists, art historians, and scholars

About the Author

Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its 16nth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.

Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes.

Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.