TOPICS OF OUR TIME: TWENTIETH-CENTURY ISSUES IN LEARNING AND IN ART

Gombrich, E.H.

ISBN 10: 071482707X / ISBN 13: 9780714827070

Published by Phaidon Press Limited, 1991

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1st 1991. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Includes a short autobiography of the author. The author devotes this volume of his essays to some of the most urgent issues confronting the student of art and of civilization today. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 223 pages including index. A nice, clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel has has an old price-label to rear. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! Seller Inventory # 1829404

Bibliographic Details

Title: TOPICS OF OUR TIME: TWENTIETH-CENTURY ISSUES...

Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First edition.

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Synopsis:

These essays reflects Gombrich's concern with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture. His topics include proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism and a plea for the conservation of our cities, and studies of the work of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson.