What to Read After Art and Illusion
Readers who loved Art and Illusion by E. H. Gombrich keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Art and Illusion is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Art and Illusion
Art and Visual Perception
Art as Experience
Why Art Cannot Be Taught
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
The Taming of Chance
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Vermeer
The Proper Study of Mankind
The Painted Word
Art and Culture
Concerning The Spiritual In Art
Goethe's Theory of colours
Visual Thinking
On Ugliness
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
The Shock of the new
Power of Art
The 20th Century Art Book
Interaction of Colour
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Vitamin P
The Accidental Masterpiece
Art, Perception and Reality
Perspective as Symbolic Form