The story of art

The story of art

E. H. Gombrich, 1909-2001

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Subjects
Art > History.
Published
New York, NY : Phaidon [1995]
Language
English
Main Author
E. H. Gombrich, 1909-2001 (-)
Edition
Sixteenth edition, revised, expanded and redesigned
Physical Description
688 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780714832470
9780714833552
  • Introduction: On Art and Artists
  • 1. Strange Beginnings: Prehistoric and Primitive Peoples; Ancient America
  • 2. Art for Eternity: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete
  • 3. The Great Awakening: Greece, Seventh to Fifth Century BC
  • 4. The Realm of Beauty: Greece and the Greek World, Fourth Century BC to First Century AD
  • 5. World Conquerors: Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, First to Fourth Century AD
  • 6. A Parting of Ways: Rome and Byzantium, Fifth to Thirteenth Century
  • 7. Looking Eastwards: Islam, China, Second to Thirteenth Century
  • 8. Western Art in the Melting Pot: Europe, Sixth to Eleventh Century
  • 9. The Church Militant: The Twelfth Century
  • 10. The Church Triumphant: The Thirteenth Century
  • 11. Courtiers and Burghers: The Fourteenth Century
  • 12. The Conquest of Reality: The Early Fifteenth Century
  • 13. Tradition and Innovation I: The Later Fifteenth Century in Italy
  • 14. Tradition and Innovation II: The Fifteenth Century in the North
  • 15. Harmony Attained: Tuscany and Rome, Early Sixteenth Century
  • 16. Light and Colour: Venice and Northern Italy, Early Sixteenth Century
  • 17. The New Learning Spreads: Germany and the Netherlands, Early Sixteenth Century
  • 18. A Crisis of Art: Europe, Later Sixteenth Century
  • 19. Vision and Visions: Catholic Europe, First Half of the Seventeenth Century
  • 20. The Mirror of Nature: Holland, Seventeenth Century
  • 21. Power and Glory I: Italy, Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  • 22. Power and Glory II: France, Germany and Austria, Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
  • 23. The Age of Reason: England and France, Eighteenth Century
  • 24. The Break in Tradition: England, America and France, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
  • 25. Permanent Revolution: The Nineteenth Century
  • 26. In Search of New Standards: The Late Nineteenth Century
  • 27. Experimental Art: The First Half of the Twentieth Century
  • 28. A Story without End: The Triumph of Modernism
  • Another Turning of the Tide
  • The Changing Past
  • A Note on Art Books
  • Chronological Charts
  • Maps
  • List of Illustrations by Location
  • Index and Glossary
  • Acknowledgments
Review by Booklist Review

Gombrich's The Story of Art has been a treasured standard in the field, selling more than 4 million copies since its first edition in 1950. Now in its 16th edition and available for the first time in paperback, this comprehensive look at Western art from prehistoric times on up to the present has been completely redesigned and extensively revised and updated. In addition, the illustrations have all been enhanced, and a total of 443 are now in color. Gombrich is more than an authority, he's an advocate, and his love and deep respect for art infuse his invigorating text. In his discussion of twentieth-century art, for instance, Gombrich explains how even the most experimental contemporary art is connected in some way to what has gone before. Gombrich tells the story of art "as the story of a continuous weaving and changing of traditions in which each work refers to the past and points to the future." Gombrich's invaluable history is a veritable celebration of this "living chain." --Donna Seaman

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Library Journal Review

Phaidon Press has produced a much-improved edition of Sir Ernst Gombrich's classic narrative study of art history, which was first published in 1950. Among the many competing introductory texts‘the central monuments of which are H.W. Janson's History of Art (Prentice, 1986. 4th. ed.) and Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages (4th ed. o.p.)‘Gombrich's venerable work has inhabited a unique niche, having been created specifically for newcomers to art. As his title indicates, he presents the whole of art history as a chronological narrative. Gombrich's voice is lively, opinionated, and almost conversational, yet his erudition shines through to make a book that is both accessible and informative. His premise, that the love of art, not the love of history, is the appropriate basis for its study is communicated directly with his irrepressible enthusiasm for certain masters and his passionate exasperation with 20th century nonobjective artists. While much of the text is unchanged, the format has been completely redesigned with vastly expanded illustrations, improved captions, better charts and an excellent index. This book belongs on every art-lover's bedside table, and even those libraries owning an earlier edition would not regret adding this refinement of an already first-rate work.‘Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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