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A collection of hard-hitting, highly readable essays reflects Professor Gombrich's preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture, and confronts some of the most urgent issues facing modern civilization. Topics include radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism and a plea for the conservation of our cities, alongside thought-provoking studies of the work of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson
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This collection of 14 essays covers a variety of topics in the visual arts, but also reveals Gombrich's deep concern with questions of value and tradition in culture.
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"Gombrich, the world's most famous art historian, is a historian of ideas and an impassioned writer of great lucidity. This is the most stimulating series of essays published in many a year. A volume to make us look - and think."―Sunday Times
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- PublisherPhaidon Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0714827916
- ISBN 13 9780714827919
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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