Topics of our Time: Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art Leonie Gombrich Author - nouveau livre

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ISBN/EAN: 9780714827919

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0-7148-2791-6, 978-0-7148-2791-9
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Auteur du livre: ernst hello, ernst most, ernst ber, saul steinberg, henri cartier bresson, oskar kokoschka, gombrich ernst hans, saül steinberg
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Auteur: Leonie Gombrich
Titre: Topics of our Time - Twentieth-century issues in learning and in art
Editeur: Phaidon
Date de parution: 1994-01-01
Berlin; DE
Imprimé / Fabriqué en
Langue: Anglais
24,95 € (DE)
24,95 € (AT)
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BC; Taschenbuch / Kunst; Kunst: allgemeine Themen; Verstehen; Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein; Art; E H Gombrich; Auseinandersetzen

(2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews.

Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes.

Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.

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.