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April 19, 2005
Aloïs Riegl Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts Zone Books, 2004. 474 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $36.95 (1890951455)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2005.26

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For the best part of the twentieth century, the work of Aloïs Riegl (1858–1905) was not accessible to the Anglophone reader. We have particular reason to welcome this highly readable translation of his Historical Grammar of the Visual Arts because this particular book was recommended by its original editors, Otto Pächt and Karl Maria Swoboda, as the best introduction to Riegl’s thought. They would have had good cause to know, as they were intimately involved...