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November 25, 2008
Dario Gamboni Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art Trans. Mark Treharne. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 304 pp.; 44 color ills.; 157 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781861891495)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.118

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Dario Gamboni has a keen eye for significant art-historical projects. In his earlier book with Reaktion, The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution (1997), he addressed a topical theme—art vandalism—with a high degree of historical nuance and depth. Potential Images shares these qualities. Gamboni examines a phenomenon with which both art historians and more casual viewers of the visual arts are familiar: the intriguing if evanescent tendency to see what we...