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.
- ISBN10 0714827916
- ISBN13 9780714827919
- Publish Date 1 January 1994
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 25 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 304
- Language English