City Life
Michael Baxandall, 15 July 1982
German Renaissance Architecture
by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Princeton, 380 pp., £50, January 1982,0 691 03959 3 Show More
by Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
Princeton, 380 pp., £50, January 1982,
“... The first point to make about this book, which is that it is an event, should not muffle the second point, which is that it is enjoyable. But it is an event. Though there are good recent studies of details, this (as Hitchcock himself points out) is the first comprehensive book on the subject in any language since a clutch in the 1920s. What Hitchcock does not say, but someone else can, is that those books of the 1920s are diversely repellent – paper or pictures, baffling allusiveness – and only to be addressed on days of high vitality and bright sun ... ”