Meditations on a Hobby Horse - And Other Essays on the Theory of Art

Phaidon, second edition, 1971

Prompted by modern critical discussions, the fourteen papers, lectures and articles assembled in this volume revolve around issues raised by twentieth-century art and theory. 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, endlessly republished, is one of the most influential books ever written about art....