Topics of Our Time: Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art

Gombrich, E.H.

ISBN 10: 0714827916 / ISBN 13: 9780714827919

Editore: Phaidon Press Inc. 2004-01, 2004

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Titolo: Topics of Our Time: Twentieth-century issues...

Casa editrice: Phaidon Press Inc. 2004-01

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: PF

Condizione: New

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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.

L'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