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Topics of Our Time : Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780714827919
- ISBN-10: 0714827916
- Publisher: Phaidon Press
- Publish Date: January 1994
- Dimensions: 9.66 x 6.79 x 0.77 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.31 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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