Art and Illusion¶
Gombrich, E. H. (1960). Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.
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- Abstraction in Art
- A common failure is abstract work so formless or random that no interpretive cognition can engage it, producing perceived meaninglessness rather than formal meaning—a problem Gombrich (1960) frames in terms of the schemata viewers require to read pictorial structure
This sourceBollingen Series XXXV.5, Pantheon / Phaidon. From the 1956 A. W. Mellon Lectures; argues pictorial perception relies on schemata, supplying the cognitive frame distinguishing legible abstract form from formless noise (D37-009 abstraction-vs-meaninglessness tension).
- A common failure is abstract work so formless or random that no interpretive cognition can engage it, producing perceived meaninglessness rather than formal meaning—a problem Gombrich (1960) frames in terms of the schemata viewers require to read pictorial structure
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