EH Gombrich

Anyone looking for the most readable survey of the history of art from the cave paintings to the 20th century should buy the new, beautifully produced pocket edition of The Story of Art, still one of the great classics of art criticism. – Independent A cornerstone of art history – in a compact yet readable format and with a new...

This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson, and Morandi. A sequence of new "endings" have been added, and the captions are now fuller, including the...