Volume 3, Number 8 · December 3, 1964
The Language of the Dead
By Wylie Sypher
Tomb Sculpture
by Erwin Panofsky, edited by H.W. Janson
Abrams, 319 pp., $20.00
These four lectures—a 'little series' Panofsky modestly calls them—were not intended for publication when they were given in 1956, but they have been made an occasion for printing, with 471 lavish black-and-white illustrations, one of his most meditative examinations of the contradictions inherent in art-forms. The topic could be desolating, but Panofsky has approached it with Olympian equanimity, remarking on at least one occasion that he was taking full advantage of still being outside his subject.
Review, 1477 words
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