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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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Topics of our time. Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art, Ernst Gombrich
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- Released
- 1991
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Topics of our time. Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ernst Gombrich
- Publisher
- Phaidon
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 223
- ISBN10
- 0714827916
- ISBN13
- 9780714827919
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Art
- Rating
- 4.5 out of 5
- Description
- 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.