C. Oliver O’Donnell, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind
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the intellectual portrait of Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996) by C. Oliver O’Donnell offers a crossing of the major issues that shaken art history between the late 1920s and the 1970s. In eight chapters, from 1929 to 1973, the mediator’s first research into Moissac’s Roman sculpture at his book Les Mots and Images (1973), a series of theoretical debates punctuated the career of the very charismatic professor of the University of Columbia (New York). Meyer Schapir...