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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

by E.H. Gombrich

Recommendations from our site

Other books by E.H. Gombrich

A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

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The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner

Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham

The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer

City of Quartz by Mike Davis

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A Little History of the World
by E.H. Gombrich

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner

Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham

The Ongoing Moment
by Geoff Dyer

City of Quartz
by Mike Davis