The Story Of Art

Book Name-"The Story Of Art"

Author Name-   E. H. Gombrich

File Type-PDF

Pages-472

PDF Quality-Best

PDF Size-46.5mb

Book Type-English

Publication date-1951


Publisher-  Phaidon Publishers 

                                  PREFACE

THIS book is intended for all who feel in need of some first orientation in a strange and fascinating field. It wants to show the newcomer the lic of the
land without confusing him with details; it hopes to enable him to bring some intelligible order into the wealth of names, periods and styles which crowd the pages of more ambitious works, and so to equip him for consulting more specialized books. In planning and writing it I thought first and foremost of readers in their teens who had just discovered the world of art for themselves. But I have never believed that books for young people should differ from books for adults except for the fact that they must reckon with the most exacting class of critics, critics who are quick to detect and resent any trace of pretentious jargon or bogus sentiment. I know from experience that these are the vices which may render people suspicious of all writings on art for the rest of their lives. I have striven sincerely to avoid these pitfalls and to use plain language even at the risk of sounding casual or unprofessional. Difficulties of thought, on the other hand, I have not avoided, and so I hope that no reader will attribute my decision to get along with a minimum of the art historian's conventional terms to any desire on my part of talking down to him. For is it not rather those who misuse 'scientific language, not
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