Meditations on a hobby horse, and other essays on the theory of art

Essays by a college professor of the history of art at both Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, as well as lecturer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and visiting professor at Harvard. Essays have topics such as: visual metaphors of value, psycho-analysis, physiognomic perception, expression and communication, achievement in medieval art, Andre Maltraux and the crisis of expression, social history of art, tradition and expression in western still lifes, art and scholarship, imagery and art in the romantic period, the cartoonist's armoury, the vogue of abstract art, illusion and visual deadlock, and others.