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

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

E. H. Gombrich • Phaidon

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ISBN-10: 1764655869 · ISBN-13: 978‑0714827919 · 1991

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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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