History of art. Gombrich E.Kh.

The history of art is one of the most famous books about art. Translated into many languages, for almost half a century she has been holding a championship in the introductory excursion genre into the history of art - from the oldest cave painting to experiments of our days, and her circulation during this time exceeded 5 000000 copies. Not only the simplicity of the language, the tonality of conversation with the reader, but also the special clarity of the presentation of the material. The author sets himself the goal of “clarifying the order and correlation of periods, styles, names, which filled more voluminous and complex books,” and, based on their discoveries in the field of the psychology of fine art, represents their history as “the history of continuous movement and interweaving of traditions, in which any work correlates with the past and points to the future, ”as“ a living chain of inheritance that connects the art of our days with the age of pyramids. ”