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end up producing four quite different-looking works that Wlfflin had retold on
the first page of his Principles.
8 Cited by O. Pcht in idem: The Practice of Art History, London 1999, p.29.
9 Cited by L. Steinberg: The Eye is a Part of the Mind, in idem: Other Criteria, New
York 1972, p.290.
10 E. Gilson: Painting and Reality, New York 1957, pp.259 and 265, note 25.
11 Steinberg, op. cit. (note 9), p.292.
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Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology, Baltimore and London 1993,
pp.28489.
14 E.H. Gombrich: Raphaels Stanza della Segnatura, in idem: Symbolic Images,
London 1972, p.101. See also the final words of Meditations on a Hobby Horse, in
Ibid., pp.5153.
M. Podro: Depiction, New Haven 1998, p.26. Bryson, op. cit. (note 2),
p.30, allowed as much. W. Iser: How to Do Theory, Oxford 2006, pp.5255, makes a
similar argument. See the more extended discussion of Gombrich in W. Iser: The
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the volume of the same name (London 1963); or Art and Illusion, p.396, the penultimate sentence of the book, on our habitual reluctance to recognize ambiguity
behind the veil of illusion.
15 Compare the reference by Bryson to a generally held, vague, common-sense
conception of the image as the resurrection of Life; Bryson: op. cit. (note 2),
p.3. I am not sure that common sense does conceive of the image in this way,
but if it does, then this is the most interesting remark Bryson makes in Vision and
Painting.
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