Meditations on a Hobby Horse And Other Essays on the Theory of Art, by Gombrich, E. H - 1971

E-254: Phaidon. Very Good. 1971. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Phaidon Publishers Inc/NYGS, Greenwich, CT. 1963. 184 pgs. Illustrated with 140 Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This book was the first volume to be published in the author's long and distinguished series of collected essays. In it he addresses fundamental questions about the nature of artistic achievement, the criteria of artistic value, and the role of language in understanding and interpreting images. These essays explore the problematic character of metaphors, analogies, symbols, myths, conventions and traditions in art and art-historical writing, and investigate the notions of representation, expression, abstraction and illusion. EB; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 252 pages .