Durability

Peter Lamarque

  • The Critical Historians of Art by Michael Podro
    Yale, 257 pp, £15.00, November 1982, ISBN 0 300 02862 8
  • A World History of Art by Hugh Honour and John Fleming
    Macmillan, 639 pp, £17.50, September 1982, ISBN 0 333 23583 5
  • The Test of Time: An Essay in Philosophical Aesthetics by Anthony Savile
    Oxford, 319 pp, £20.00, July 1982, ISBN 0 19 824590 4

The idea of development, either in the work of individual artists or in terms of ‘schools’, ‘movements’ or styles, is a dominant feature of our conception of European art. There is no theoretical problem more pressing in art history than that of explaining such development. How do we get from Cimabue’s Madonna Enthroned to Raphael’s Alba Madonna, or even from Brunelleschi to Bramante? And why do such changes occur?

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