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

Contents

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.