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

by E.H. Gombrich

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714827916
• ISBN13: 9780714827919
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary