THE BOOK THAT SHAPED ART HISTORY

An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth centuryW ritten by some of todays leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by c omparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâles magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first published in 1898, to Hans Beltings provocative Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, the book prov ides a conc...[Read more]