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Gombrich and the Problem of Relativity of Vision

  • Ladislav Kesner
From the journal Human Affairs

Gombrich and the Problem of Relativity of Vision

The essay argues that Ernst Gombrich's views are relevant to the critical examination of the notion of the relativity and historicity of vision which has been widely accepted as one of the central axioms shared by visual studies, art history and film studies.



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