Chernyakevich, Reassessing Gombrich's Theory of Illusion for the 21st Century

ERNST GOMBRICH is the author of the famous work, Art and Illusion, which became widely known in the early 1960s and continues to be reprinted to this day. On the one hand, readers and modern thinkers are interested in the story of art, told through its relation with illusion, and on the other hand, they do not use its concepts to assess the processes occurring in today's social, ontological, and artistic spheres, especially when the question of artistic skill has been relegated significantly to the background in the modern debate. This research re-evaluates Gombrich's theory of illusion in relation to the techno-social and political environment of today's image-making. It is hoped that detecting and building connections between the ideas of Gombrich and contemporary philosophers of mind will allow us to be better equipped to attend to the novel features of the art world and its practices in a post-computational society.