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August 29, 2003
Christopher Wood, ed. The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical Method in the 1930s Zone Books, 2000. 472 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $32.00 (1890951145)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2003.76

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See Margaret Olin’s review of this book. The Anglophone public owes a great debt to Christopher Wood and his colleagues for their various translations of classic German art-historical texts. This latest volume is centered on the work of the so-called Second School of Vienna Art Historians, active in the 1920s and 1930s. Writings by its key members, Hans Sedlmayr and Otto Pächt, are prefaced by two pieces from Alois Riegl, supplemented by texts from Guido...