CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/26/2020

'Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art' is an intellectual delight

At more than 480 pages and featuring well over 500 illustrations, Genealogies of Art, or the History of Art as Visual Art—with its die-cut cover, day-glo endpapers that shine through and numerous refined text and image papers inside—is a deluxe, must-have resource for any practicing artist, art historian, teacher or collector. Gathering genealogical trees, charts, maps, allegories, diagrams and other visual representations of a seemingly infinite variety of histories of art—from sixteenth-century trees of knowledge to twenty-first-century histories of electronic music, grotesques and street art—this volume naturally takes off from and expands upon Alfred H. Barr's famous 1936 chart tracing the origins of Cubism and abstract art from the late 1800s to the date of its publication. Scholarly essays are by Manuel Fontán del Junco, Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Manuel Lima, Uwe Fleckner and Eugenio Carmona.