Topics Of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Issues In Learning & Art

Gombrich E H

ISBN 10: 0714827916 / ISBN 13: 9780714827919

Editore: Phaidon London 1991, 1994

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24.5 x 17.0cms 224pp b/w illusts very good paperback & cover The chapters are: the universities in crisis; the debate about human nature; relativism in the history of ideas; relativism in the appreciation of art; approaches to the history of art; Ruskin''s message for today (re city conservation); commitment & improvisation in the history of drawing; 2 eyewitness accounts of the origins of cubism; Koooookoschka in his time; image & word in 20th century art; Saul Steinberg; Abram Games; Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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• Titolo: Topics Of Our Time: Twentieth-Century Issues In Learning & Art
• Editore: Phaidon London 1991
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0714827916
• ISBN 13: 9780714827919
• Rilegatura: Brossura

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published 50 years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.

Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes.

Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.