Topics of Our Time: Comments on Twentieth-Century Issues in Learning and in Art

Gombrich, E. H.

ISBN 10: 0520075161 / ISBN 13: 9780520075160

Published by University of California Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Topics of Our Time: Comments on ...

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

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.

Review:

"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