To the extent that any art historian becomes "famous," Sir Ernst Gombrich is the most famous art historian in the world. He is the author of the seminal work The Story of Art, a staunch champion of the traditional canon and a perceptive analyst of artistry and illusion. This massive collection, includes essays, excerpts from the groundbreaking Art and Illusion, autobiographical notes, and reflections on artists from Raphael to Saul Steinberg. Gombrich is not a modernist, and he has been criticized for his misunderstanding of abstract painting; but his conceptions of art encompass modern psychology and history, the study of gesture and ornament, and the social history of art. Above all, Gombrich stands against sweeping generalizations, maintaining that works of art "are not the results of some mysterious activity, but objects made by human beings for human beings."

CREATIVITY: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
$19.25, Hardcover $11.20, Paperback

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists to politicians and business leaders to poets and artists, the author uses his famous "flow" theory to explain the creative process. Csikszentmihalyi's objective is to offer readers an understanding of what leads to creative moments so that they can use that knowledge to enrich their own lives.

The Design of Everyday Things
By Donald A. Norman
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Language of Vision
By Gyorgy Kepes
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The Power of the Center : A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts
By Rudolf Arnheim
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Senses Considered As Perceptual Systems
By James Jerome Gibson
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The Sense of Sight
By John Berger, Lloyd Spencer (Editor)
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Things That Make Us Smart
By Donald A. Norman
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Visual Thinking
By Rudolf Arnheim
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