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February 23, 2010
David Summers Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 232 pp.; 8 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780807831106)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.16

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In contrast to the vast scope (and scale) of his 2003 book Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism (New York: Phaidon), David Summers has dramatically focused his investigation in his newest volume, Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting, choosing instead to examine a few discrete moments in the history of Western art. Over the course of four chapters, Summers traces the development of optical theory and its related fields,...