Amid a wealth of events celebrating the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth we reconsider the breadth of this Victorian polymath’s achievements, and we talk to two experts in E.H. Gombrich, writer of ...

For decades EH Gombrich inspired readers across the globe. Leonie Gombrich & Rob Newman use his archives to tell the story of a man who taught the world how to see and read art. "There really is no ...

The late Sir Ernst Gombrich wrote A Little History of the World in 1936, in German. The book tells the story of human kind from the stone age to the atomic bomb and has been translated into 17 ...

SIR ERNST GOMBRICH, who has died aged 92, became, as E H Gombrich, the best known art historian in Britain, perhaps in the world, through his books The Story of Art and Art and Illusion. The Story of ...

Publisher's description: This book, the last to be completed by the author, is a study of a recurring phenomenon in the history of changing taste in the visual arts, namely the feeling that older and ...

EH Gombrich's history of the world for young readers became an instant success when first published in Austria in 1935. The author was a 26-year-old unemployed graduate when, armed with an ...

A Viennese who found sanctuary in England before the Second World War, E. H. Gombrich established his international reputation as director of the Warburg Institute of the University of London. His ...

Amid a wealth of events celebrating the bicentenary of John Ruskin’s birth we reconsider the breadth of this Victorian polymath’s achievements, and we talk to two experts in E.H. Gombrich, writer of ...