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Contemporary art in the light of history

Erwin Rosenthal's Contemporary Art in the Light of History, originally published in 1971, is a small masterpiece of writing on the art of the twentieth century. A scholar of medieval art by training and a prominent antiquarian bookseller, Rosenthal, who died in l981, was equally entranced by modern art, particularly abstraction. His three linked essays in this book-"Contemporary Art in the Light of History," "Art and Technology," and "Art Theories and Manifestos, Old and New"--Set out a path to understanding modern art through its affinities with the art of the past. Ros.

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