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Singularly interesting and stimulating. . . . A passionate and original work of scholarship.--Richard Wollheim, Times Literary Supplement With the publication of Rembrandt's Enterprise], Svetlana Alpers has firmly established herself in the front ranks of art historians at work today. . . . The book is not a long one. Yet, there is more perceptive scholarship packed into its four chapters than is typically found in a whole shelf of the more common outpourings of academic writers. Rembrandt's Enterprise is less a book of archival discoveries than of fresh interpretation of the revered artist...

"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . ....

" Ein junger Mann, 1903 im Mittleren Westen geboren und aus einer Mittelklassefamilie stammend, mit einem Hang zur Literatur und sprachlich begabt, ein Bewunderer Frankreichs, was Lebensart und Dichtung anbelangt, allen voran Flaubert und Baudelaire (aber auch Gide und Cendrars), dieser junge Mann kehrt nach einem Jahr in Frankreich (1926/27) nach New York zurück, freut sich in der Folgezeit, dass es die Reichen im Börsenkrach des Jahres 1929 hart trifft, greift zu einer Kamera und macht beinahe von den ersten Bildern an bemerkenswerte Photographien von der Welt, wie er sie sieht - und...

"A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans"--