26 MAY 1984, page 28

Traditionalist

Peter Aar oyd Tributes E. H. Gombrich (Phaidon £17.50) I t may be either brave or foolhardy of Professor Gombrich to devote this volume to 'the interpreters of our cultural......

Recent Cataloguesof 20th-century Painting

E xhibition catalogues are the major -Li showcase nowadays for research and new discoveries in art history. This makes many of them unreadable for the non- specialist (and the......