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Ernst Gombrich
Art at the End of its Tether
Man’s Range for Chaos: Biology, Behavior and the Arts by Morse Peckham
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Joseph M. Kraft
Politics in Vietnam
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Gavin de Beer
At the Edge of Science
The Discovery of Time by Stephen Toulmin, by June Goodfield
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Conor Cruise O’Brien
Changing the Guard
African Tightrope: My Two Years as Nkrumah’s Chief of Staff by Major-General H.T. Alexander
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Hans J. Morgenthau
Room at the Top
Triumph or Tragedy: Reflections on Vietnam by Richard Goodwin
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R.J.C. Atkinson
Stonehenge in Darkness
Stonehenge Decoded by Gerald S. Hawkins, in collaboration with John B. White
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Paul de Man
The Literature of Nihilism
The Artist’s Journey into the Interior and Other Essays by Erich Heller
The German Tradition in Literature 1871-1945 by Ronald Gray
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Frederick C. Crews
Literature on the Couch
The Quest for Love by David Holbrook
Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare by Norman N. Holland
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Roger Shattuck
Fiction à la Mode
The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell Jr.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass
LETTERS
Contributors
Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)
