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Contents
From Light into Paint | 29 |
n Truth and the Stereotype | 55 |
in Pygmalions Power | 94 |
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| Title | Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation Volume 5 of A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts |
| Author | Ernst Hans Gombrich |
| Edition | 5, illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Phaidon, 1977 |
| Length | 386 pages |
| Subjects | › Art Art / Criticism Psychology / Cognitive Psychology Psychology / General Visual perception |
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