TY - BOOK AU - Gombrich,E.H. TI - The preference for the primitive: episodes in the history of Western taste and art SN - 0714846325 (pbk.) : AV - N6465.P74 G66 2002 PY - 2006///, c2002 CY - London PB - Phaidon KW - Art, Primitive KW - Art KW - Philosophy KW - Primitivism in art KW - Primitivismo en el arte N1 - Originally published: 2002; Includes bibliographical references (p.301-311) and index; Plato's preferences -- Interlude : progress or decline? -- The ascendancy of the sublime -- The pre-Raphaelite ideal -- The quest for spirituality -- The emancipation of formal values -- Interlude : new worlds and new myths -- The twentieth century: The lure of regression (1) ; The lure of regression (2) -- Primitive, in what sense? -- The study of antiquities ER -