Volume 24, Number 15 · September 29, 1977
Survival of the Fittest?
By Henri Zerner
Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France
by Francis Haskell
Cornell University Press, 246, 255 illus pp., $19.50
Such was the young Ruskin's brashly subversive project, and Francis Haskell presents it with obvious and understandable delight. This is the subject of his book: how old canons of taste are knocked down and replaced by new ones.
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