Volume 43, Number 3 · February 15, 1996
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By Ernst Gombrich
Three Essays on Style
by Erwin Panofsky, edited by Irving Lavin, with a memoir by William S. Heckscher
MIT Press, 245 pp., $25.00
Perspective as Symbolic Form
by Erwin Panofsky, translated by Christopher S. Wood
Zone Books/MIT Press, 196 pp., $24.95
'Expulsion into Paradise' was Erwin Panofsky's characteristic remark in the spring of 1933, when he received the letter that deprived him of his chair in art history at Hamburg University because of his 'race.' He had been so fortunate as to enjoy the foretaste of Paradise before, having divided his teaching activities between Germany and the United States for some time, and soon afterward his bliss became perfect on his appointment as Professor of Art History at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, made famous by the presence of an even more eminent 'non-Aryan,' Albert Einstein.
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