CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/10/2020

In 'Genealogies of Art,' the history of visual art in flowcharts, family trees, diagrams and info graphics

Featured photograph, by Maurice Jarnoux, is of French novelist and art theorist André Malraux in his studio in Boulogne-sur-Seine working on his book, The Imaginary Museum (1953). It is reproduced from Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art, published by Fundación Juan March. Other visual histories of art in the chapter spanning 1936–2019 include Alfred H. Barr's 1940 "Italian Painting and Sculpture, 1300–1800," Ad Reinhardt's 1961 "How to Look at Modern Art in America, 1946–61," Guy DeBord's "Psychogeographic Guide of Paris: Discourse on Love's Passions," George Maciunas' 1979 "Diagram of Historical Development of Fluxus and 4 Dimensional, Aural, Optic, Olfactory, Epithelial and Tactile Art Forms' and the Guerilla Girls' 1998 "Guerillas in the Midst of History."