Articles of ‘E.H. Gombrich’

Figurative Drawing: E. H. Gombrich and Stephen Wiltshire, “The Human Camera”

Figurative Drawing: E. H. Gombrich and Stephen Wiltshire, “The Human Camera”

By John Valentine
It is not my intent in this short essay to conduct an in-depth critique of E.H. Gombrich’s masterful work in the psychology of perception and its relation to figurative drawing. His book Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation is justifiably famous. Rather, my goal is to [...]