Svetlana Alpers

Artforum Best Books of 2020 Antiques & Arts Weekly Holiday Books Round-up 2020 FiveBooks The Best Art Books of 2020 Anchorage Press Top 10 for 2020 A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans. Walker Evans (1903-75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work for...

The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality...