The image and the eye : further studies in the psychology of pictorial representation / E.H. Gombrich
1986, First Edition. London : Phaidon. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #446624
ISBN: 0714824283
Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Visual discovery through art -- Moment and movement in art -- Ritualized gesture and expression in art -- Action and expression in Western art -- The mask and the face : the perception of physiognomic likeness in life and in art -- The visual image : its place in communication -- 'The sky is the limit' : the vault of heaven and pictorial vision -- Mirror and map : theories of pictorial representation -- Experiment and experience in the arts -- Standards of truth : the arrested image and the moving eye -- Image and code : scope and limits of conventionalism in pictorial representation. Subjects; Picture perception Psychological aspects. Visual perception Psychological aspects. Visual perception. Art Psychology. Visual representation.
Price: €21.95