Episodes
Subtitle: a memorybook
By: Michael Baxandall ; with an introduction by Carlo Ginzburg
Contributors: Ginzburg, Carlo
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780711231153
Subjects: Art; Art historians; Popular culture; Philosophy; Biography; History
Description: Michael Baxandall (1933-2008) was probably the most influential art historian of his generation. In this memoir, he reflects on his childhood in Cardiff, his education at Cambridge and on the continent, and his early work with Pope Hennessey at the V&A and Gombrich at the Warburg. Its elegant prose offers a rare insight into the mind of this 'laconic, intense, shy, passionate man', as the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg describes him in the foreword.