The Renaissance: Revised, Expanded, Unexpurgated

[...]Lasansky notes that the choices made by the Venetian planners and architects also mirror the teaching of art history, wherein we choose noteworthy or exemplary monuments and pull them out of context in order to bring them into our classrooms. While Kury’s postmodern writing style is an outlier in the volume, her first essay is a thought-provoking meditation on the relationships between art history as a discipline and the oft futile search for genuine examples of artistic genius and period style. [...]the volume is plagued by typesetting errors and a few factual inaccuracies.