Volume 41, Number 17 · October 20, 1994
Ah, Wilderness
By Anthony Grafton
Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape
by Christopher S. Wood
University of Chicago Press, 323 pp., $65.00
No two centers of urban civilization could be less alike than the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. The formal, handsome French library stands in a charming neighborhood, next to a pretty square with a fountain. The blindingly white, austerely modern German collection of graphics squats in a wilderness, surrounded by powerful, clashing modern buildings, the eroding hulks of Nazi Berlin's Embassy Row, and scraggy fields full of parked cars. And their intellectual styles differ as sharply as their architecture.
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