Main entry:

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001.

Title & Author:

Topics of our time : twentieth-century issues in learning and in art / E.H. Gombrich.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.
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.

Summary:

A collection of short articles, lectures etc.

ISBN:

0520075161
9780520075160

Subject:

Art, Modern 20th century.
Learning and scholarship History 20th century.
Cultural relativism.
Art 20e siècle.
Savoir et érudition Histoire 20e siècle.
Relativisme culturel.
Art, Modern.
Learning and scholarship.
Interdisziplinäre Forschung
Kunst
Ästhetik
Aufsatzsammlung
Geschichte (1900-1990)
1900-1999

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 76236
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:92-B475
Status: Available