Making Room for Books
February 10, 2021
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen— When in 1656 Rembrandt was forced to declare bankruptcy, a full inventory was made of all of his remaining possessions. Among the paintings, furniture… READ MORE
Tag: book history
A Personal Canon: Abigail McEwen on Five Influential Texts
September 25, 2020
Juan A. Martínez, Cuban Art and National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters, 1927-1950 (1994) In his classic account of Cuba’s historic vanguardia generation, Martínez developed a social history of modern Cuban art that… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Nicholas Adams on Five Influential Texts
June 17, 2020
Why would anyone write a book about the architect Gordon Bunshaft? The consensus is that he was a rude and unpleasant man and, though he was responsible for the design… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Tim Barringer on Five Influential Texts
May 14, 2020
“British Art” lay at the margins of art history until the 1980s – the very phrase an oxymoron, a Yale colleague told me, since there is no British art to… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Patricia Mainardi on Five Influential Texts
December 18, 2019
In thinking about writing that has been important to me, I chose publications that did not simply tell me something previously unknown but rather shaped my conceptual framework by opening… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Eric Mumford on Five Influential Texts
November 13, 2019
Here is my selection of five books that have defined and redefined urbanism since 1850… Camillo Sitte, City Building according to artistic principles (1889) As an arts and crafts educator… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Christina Weyl on Five Influential Texts
October 16, 2019
Here are five books that shaped the study of women printmakers active in the twentieth century. James Watrous, A Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980 (1984) Watrous’s well-researched survey of American… READ MORE
A Personal Canon: Stephen Houston on Five Influential Texts
September 18, 2019
Books can amuse, provoke, and uplift. The best ones are also, just a bit, like CRISPR technology. That breakthrough allows biochemists to edit genomes. Potent, lasting books reedit our minds…. READ MORE
Oscar Hammerstein II: Works Well With Others