This collection of hard-hitting, highly readable essays reflects Gombrich´s preoccupation with the central questions of value and tradition in our culture. Here he confronts some of the most urgent issues challenging today´s students of art and civilization. His topics include some radical proposals for the reform of higher education, an attack on relativism and a plea for the conservation of our cities, alongside thought-provoking and engaging studies of the work of Oskar Kokoschka, Abram Games, Saul Steinberg and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
