Volume 29, Number 9 · May 27, 1982
The Unhappy Medium
By Charles Rosen, Henri Zerner
Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision
by Albert Boime
Yale University Press, 683 pp., $85.00
Someone once said that it is not history that repeats itself but historians that repeat each other. When it comes to the history of nineteenth-century painting, however, it might be better if they repeated each other more often, or at least more judiciously: one of the difficulties about recent writing on the subject is that some of the most interesting books that came out early in the twentieth century are either forgotten or only superficially read today.
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