Topics of Our Time: Comments on Twentieth-Century Issues in Learning and in Art [Hardcover]

E. H. Gombrich (Author)

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Publication Date: January 15, 1992

This collection of hard-hitting, highly readable essays reflects Gombrich's preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture. Here he confronts some of the most urgent issues challenging today's students of art and civilization. His topics include some radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism and a plea for the conservation of our cities, alongside thought-provoking and engaging studies of the work of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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This collection of essays reflects Gombrich's concern 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press (January 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520075161
• ISBN-13: 978-0520075160
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,387,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (30 March 1909 - 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of many works of art criticism and art history. (Photograph: Pino Guidolotti)

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This review is from: Topics of Our Time: Comments on Twentieth-Century Issues in Learning and in Art (Hardcover)

The first chapter tells of Vienna in the early 20th century. It is written by way of recounting his early years, and is an education in and of itself. It only gets better.