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Art and illusion a study in the psychology of pictorial representation

by E. H. Gombrich

Series: Bollingen Series (35.5), A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts (5)

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Bollingen Series (35.5)

A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts (5)

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Art and Illusion

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1960

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An attempt to explain rationally the shifting styles of art, from antiquity to the present, employing modern concepts of visual perception, information theory, and learning.

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