The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art Trick- & Zeichentrickfilm and marrying form and function

and marrying form and function

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The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art Trick- & Zeichentrickfilm and marrying form and functionThis monumental book the last to be completed by the author is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts: the feeling that older and less sophisticated (i. e. 'primitive') works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that are perceived as comparatively soft and decadent. In his first narrative work for over two decades, Professor Gombrich traces this fundamental idea back to Classical