Victor I. Stoichita
The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
345 pp.; 131 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(0521433932)
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Victor I. Stoichita is one of the most imaginative younger art historians in Europe, and has recently burst into English-language publishers’ lists. His books Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Art and A Short History of the Shadow appeared with Reaktion Books (London) in 1995 and 1997. The book under review, also published in 1997, is a translation of L’Instauration du tableau: Metapeinture a l’aube des temps modernes (Paris: Meridiens Klinksieck, 1993). Each...