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The preference for the primitive : episodes in the history of western taste and art
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The preference for the primitive : episodes in the history of western taste and art

by Ernst Hans Gombrich

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Accession 4539 ISBN — Publisher Phaidon Press
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A study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of the visual arts: the feeling that older and less sophisticated (i.e. 'primitive') works are somehow morally and aesthetically superior to later works that are perceived as comparatively soft and decadent. -- blurb

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