In particular, Potts reflects on the art world during the formative period of Baxandall’s education in the late 1950s and 1960s. Instead, they query their friend or teacher in a gentle but searching way that Baxandall himself used to address the work of art.Īlex Potts reflects on the “visual conditions of pictorial meaning,” an aim identified by Baxandall as the goal of his research in Words for Pictures (2003). These resources reveal new influences and concerns that help us to understand the scholar better. The conference and book sought to assimilate recent source material about Baxandall, including interviews and his recently published personal memoir ( Episodes, 2010) and fiction. The book under review was published in 2015 as the successor of a conference at the Warburg Institute in May 2012. During Baxandall’s lifetime, Adrian Rifkin edited a volume, About Michael Baxandall (Wiley-Blackwell, 1999), subjecting his methods to scrutiny. A string of classic texts and a restless, searching expansion of his range from the Italian Renaissance to the Northern one and into the eighteenth century, combined with a firmly original scholarly viewpoint, afforded him the status of a deep thinker who merits careful study. Michael Baxandall, who died in 2008 just shy of his seventy-fifth birthday, is one of a handful of postwar scholars who were quickly recognized as some of art history’s greats.
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