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

Originally published in 1963, this book was the first volume to be publishedn the author's long and distinguished series of collected essays. In it heddresses fundamental questions about the nature of artistic achievement, theriteria of artistic value, and the role of language in understanding andnterpreting images. These essays explore the problematic character ofetaphors, analogies, symbols, myths, conventions and traditions in art andrt-historical writing, and investigate the notions of representation,xpression, abstraction and illusion.Gombrich, E. H. is the author of 'Meditations on a Hobby Horse And Other Essays on the Theory of Art' with ISBN 9780714832456 and ISBN 0714832456.