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  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    Ernst Kris and Otto Kurz, Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist: A Historical Experiment (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).

    Rensselaer W. Lee, Ut Pictura Poesis: The Humanistic Theory of Painting (New York: Norton, 1967).

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    Andrew Martindale, The Rise of the Artist in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972).

    Thomas McEvilley, Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millenium (New York: McPherson, 1991).

    Samuel Holt Monk, ‘A Grace Beyond the Reach of Art,’ Journal of the History of Ideas V (1944): 131-150.

    Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art, ed. Joshua C. Taylor (University of California Press, 1987).

    Linda Nochlin, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ [1971], in Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power (New York: Harper & Row, 1988).

    Erwin Panofsky, Idea: A Concept in Art Theory, trans. Joseph J. S. Peake (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1968).

    Nikolaus Pevsner, Academies of Art Past and Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940).

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    Benjamin Rowland, The Classical Tradition in Western Art (Cambridge, Mass., 1963).

    David Summers, The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics (Cambridge, 1987).

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    T. B. L. Webster, ‘Plato and Aristotle as Critics of Greek Art,’ Symbolae Osloenses XXIX (1952): 8-23.

    Johann J. Winckelmann, History of Ancient Art. Trans. by G. Henry Lodge (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1880).

    Rudolf and Margot Wittkower, Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artist: A Documentary History from Antiquity to the French Revolution (New York and London: Norton, 1969).

    Tom Wolfe, ‘The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God,’ Harper's, October 1986: 61-68.

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