. . . and Occasionally Other Books
Thoughts on Reading Old and New
Books on the History and Historiography of Art and Visual Studies
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After years of reading professionally–and narrowly–in the discipline of art history, I’m reading for pleasure, a use I’d never really considered. Le plaisir du texte and all that. I invite you to join me.
Masterpieces of Western Painting
Periodically publishers issue a series monographs on individual works of art. This is still pretty rare in art publishing. There’s no tenure promotion given on single-artwork writing: what methodological theory can that advance? What new discovery can be wrapped around an entire book on a sole work of art? No, these, when they are written,…
Thoughts on Art Books
I have been an academic in art history for thirty-five years and have read just about every book in my narrow subspecialty or assigned as a course reading for a class I was teaching. During CoViD I began pulling off the shelf of my home library (let’s not go into how many books I own)…
Giorgio Vasari: the Man and his Woman
T. S. R. Boase. Giorgio Vasari: the Man and the Book. A. W. Mellon Lectures, 1971. Bollingen Series XXXV. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Availability Among the most intriguing of the Mellon Lectures that I purchased through abebooks.com was T. S. R. Boase’s lecture-cum-tome on perhaps the first art historian, Giorgio Vasari. Boase seemed like an odd choice…
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