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October 14, 2003
David Summers Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism Phaidon Press, 2003. 687 pp.; 350 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0714842443)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2003.91

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Aware that art history still remains all too traditional in its orientation, much too focused upon European art, many art historians would like to have a true world history of art. As a student at Yale University, David Summers was inspired by George Kubler’s classes on pre-Columbian art. Now, after publishing justly renowned books devoted to Michelangelo and Renaissance naturalism, he has written a postformalist history of world art. This enormously long, clearly written book...