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

by E.H. Gombrich

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Our most recommended books

Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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Gettysburg by William Frassanito

The Modern Poster by Stuart Wrede

Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille

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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

Gettysburg
by William Frassanito

The Modern Poster
by Stuart Wrede

Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
by Michael Camille