Volume 42, Number 2 · February 2, 1995
The Great Outsider
By Willibald Sauerländer
OTHER VOLUMES OF MEYER SCHAPIRO'S SELECTED PAPERS
Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected Papers, Volume IV
by Meyer Schapiro
Braziller, 253 pp., $27.50
Romanesque Art (Volume I)
Braziller, 368 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (Volume II)
Braziller, 277 pp., $19.95 (paper)
Late Antique, Early Christian, and Mediaeval Art (Volume III)
Braziller, 414 pp., $19.95 (paper)
In the decades between 1930 and 1980, when New York replaced Paris as the center of modern art and art history expanded into a successful and fashionable discipline. Meyer Schapiro was the only art historian who had the strength and independence to do original work both inside and outside the academy. He was equally at home in the manuscript room of the Morgan Library, in the Museum of Modern Art, and in the ateliers of artists. He wrote with the same verve and acuteness on 'The Aesthetic Attitude in Romanesque Art' as on 'The Nature of Abstract Art.' As an intellectual and a scholar, he is unique among the great art historians of his time.
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