{"product_id":"legend-myth-and-magic-in-the-image-of-the-artist-a-historical-experiment-9780300026696","title":"Legend  Myth  and Magic in the Image of the Artist: A Historical Experiment","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first English translation of a brief  scholarly  and brilliantly original work which sets out to examine the links between the legend of the artist  in all cultures  and what E.H. Gombrich  in an introductory essay  calls certain invariant traits of the human psyche.Denis Thomas  Journal of the Royal Society of Arts This book gathers together various legends and attitudes about artists  ancient and modern  East and West  and gives fascinating insights into attitudes toward artistic creation. It impinges on psychology  art history and history  aesthetics  biography  myth and magic  and will be of great interest to a wide audience in many fields. A delightful and unrivalled study.Howard Hibbard Thought provoking and valuable. To all those interested in psychiatry and art from the perspectives of history  criticism  or therapy and to the wide audience concerned with the psychology of aesthetics and of artistic creation.Albert Rothenberg  American Journal of Psychiatry Ernst Kris was a psychoanalyst who wrote on a wide variety of subjects  including art. Otto Kurz was librarian of the Warburg Institute in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953156186165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300026692","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300026696.jpg?v=1788180052","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/legend-myth-and-magic-in-the-image-of-the-artist-a-historical-experiment-9780300026696","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}