Topics of our time: Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art.

GOMBRICH, E. H. [Ernst Hans] (1909-2001):

ISBN 10: 0520075161 / ISBN 13: 9780520075160

Published by Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991., 1991

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Frontispiece, 223 pp; 158 illus. Original cloth, large 8vo. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 18022

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Topics of our time: Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art.
• Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520075161
• ISBN 13: 9780520075160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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