Rodney Palmer

A series of essays that collectively describe how "over the last 500 years book imagery -- even though existing in a resiprocal relation to text, and therefore not always entirely dependent on it -- has increasingly played a primary rather than a secondary role in manuscript and printed sources on art and architecture." By " art and architecture" is meant Italian productions from the renaissance. So we have a somewhat more limited weedpatch than the title (and subtitle) might lead you to believe. My favorite essay is Anthony Hammer's on the evolution of photography in art publications of the 19th century.… (altro)