Volume 26, Number 11 · June 28, 1979
The Sense of Sense
By Henri Zerner
The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art
by E.H. Gombrich
Cornell University Press, 411 pp., $38.50
E.H. Gombrich started his career as an art historian by straying from art history. As a student at the University in Berlin he was disappointed with Heinrich Wölfflin's lectures, later published as Italy and the German Feeling for Form. (It is a disappointment that has stayed with him today to the point that he misquotes the title.[1] ) He confesses: 'I soon stayed away [from the lectures] in order to attend Wolfgang Köhler's more exciting accounts of psychology.' The escape was significant for Gombrich: he has ever since been more at home in psychology than in aesthetics.
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