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, highly readable essays reflects Professor E H Gombrich's preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in culture. His topics include radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism, and a plea for the conservation of our cities, alongside thought-provoking studies of the work of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Carier-Bresson.

About the Author

Among E. H. GOMBRICH's many writings are the international bestsellers "The Story of Art "and "Art and Illusion," He was director of the Warburg Institute of the University of London from 1959 to 1976.