world' and also 'one of the most influential scholars and thinkers of the 20th century'. Criticism Gombrich was sensitive to the criticism that he did not like modern art and was obliged to defend his position on occasion. He has also been criticised for taking what is now viewed as a eurocentric—not to say neo-colonialist—view of art, and for not including female artists in much of his writing on Western art. His answer to the latter was that he was writing a history of art as it was, and that women artists did not feature widely in the West before the 20th century. He admired 20th-century female artists such as Bridget Riley, whose work was included in a revised edition of The Story of Art. While several works of Gombrich (especially Art and Illusion in 1960) had enormous impact on art history and other fields, his categorical attacks on historism have been accused (by Carlo Ginzburg) of leading to "barren" scholarship; many of his methodological arguments have been superseded by the work of art historians like Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall. Honours and awards Master-Mind Lecture of the British Academy (1957) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1966) Elected to the American Philosophical Society (1968) Knight Bachelor (1972) Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1975) Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1977) Order of Merit (1988) Balzan Prize for History of Art of the West (1985) Goethe Prize (1994) City of Vienna Prize for Humanities (1986) Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Science Foundation (1988) Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna (1999) Leverhulme Medal of the British Academy (2002) In the Favoriten (10th District) of Vienna, the Gombrichgasse was named for him in 2009. Selected publications The Preference for the Primitive. Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art. London: Phaidon 2002 The Uses of Images. Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Communication. London: Phaidon 1999 Topics of Our Time. Twentieth-Century Issues in Learning and in Art. London: Phaidon 1991 Reflections on the History of Art. Views and Reviews. Oxford: Phaidon 1987 Tributes. Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition. Oxford: Phaidon 1984 Ideals & Idols. Essays on Values in History and Art. Oxford: Phaidon 1979 The Sense of Order. a Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. Oxford: Phaidon