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This collection of hard-hitting and highly readable essays reflects Gombrich's preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture. He confronts - with characteristic incision and erudition - some of the most urgent issues that challenge today's students of art and civilization.
His topics include a series of radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an assault on the notion of relativism and a heartfelt plea for the conservation of our cities, alongside thought-provoking and engaging studies of the works of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.
Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes.
Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.
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Topics of our time : twentieth-century issues in learning and in art / E.H. Gombrich
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5th edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Contents inmclude:- An autobiographical sketch -- The embattled humanities: the universities in crisis -- Relativism in the humanities: the deabate about human nature -- Relativism in the history of ideas -- Relativism in the appreciation of art -- Approaches to the history of art: three points for discussion -- The conservation of our cities: Ruskin's message for today -- Watching artists at work: commitment and improvisation in the history of drawing -- Plato in modern dress: two eyewitness accounts of the origins of Cubism -- Kokoschka in his time -- Image and word in Twentieth-Century art -- The wit of Saul Steinberg -- A master of poster design: Abram Games -- The photographer as artist: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Subjects; Cartier-Bresson, Henri 1908-2004. Games, Abram 1914-1996. 1900-1999. Art, Modern 20th century. Learning and scholarship History 20th century. Cultural relativism. Art Philosophy. Art, Modern 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Modernism (Art) 20th century Addresses, essays, lectures. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 419934
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