The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art

The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art image
ISBN-10:

0714846325

ISBN-13:

9780714846323

Author(s): Gombrich, Leonie
Released: May 16, 2006
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Format: Paperback, 324 pages
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Description:

Professor Gombrich's last book and first narrative book in over 20 years. Studies the idea that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') artworks are morally and aesthetically superior to newer ones that in our present time are decadent

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