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Topics of our time : twentieth-century issues in learning and in art

By E. H. Gombrich

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780520075160, 0520075161
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
57 MB (59364428 bytes)
Pages
223\223
Time added
2018-03-20 11:54:33
ArtModern -- 20th century;Learning and scholarship --Modern;Learning and scholarship

Description

An autobiographical sketch -- The embattled humanities : the universities in crisis -- Relativism in the humanities : the debate about human nature -- Relativism in the history of ideas -- Relativism in the appreciation of art -- Approaches to the history of art : three points for discussion -- The conservation of our cities : Ruskin's message for today -- Watching artists at work : commitment and improvisation in the history of drawing -- Plato in modern dress : two eyewitness accounts of the origins of Cubism -- Kokoschka in his time -- Image and word in twentieth-century art -- The wit of Saul Steinberg -- A master of poster design : Abram Games -- The photographer as artist : Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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