Christopher S. Wood
Christopher Wood is Professor in the German Department, New York University. Before coming to NYU, he was Carnegie Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. He has been a fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University; the American Academy in Rome; the American Academy in Berlin; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, Florence. In 2002 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Wood is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (1993); Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (2008), and Anachronic Renaissance (with Alexander Nagel) (2010).
Books by Christopher S. Wood
“It’s a really clear, very erudite, very wordy, very lengthy look at some of those big names in art history to show how the reporting of art has changed, and how we all need to be mindful of that. When we read about art, we must think about where the writer is coming from, as well as what they’re writing about.” Read more...
Charlotte Mullins, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Interviews with Christopher S. Wood
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The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
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The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550
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The Art of Arts
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Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
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Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The Renaissance had quite distinct manifestations in Northern Europe and Italy: if the Southern Renaissance was all about abundance and positivity, the dominant theme of the Northern Renaissance was negativity, says New York University Professor Christopher S. Wood. He recommends what to read to learn more about the Northern Renaissance, from Bosch’s fantasy bestiary of the demonic and the grotesque, to Bruegel’s comic and badly proportioned peasants.
Interviews where books by Christopher S. Wood were recommended
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This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
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Ninth Street Women: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
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A History of Art History
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Women, Art, and Society
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Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now
by Alex Farquharson & David A. Bailey
The best books on Art History, recommended by Charlotte Mullins
The best books on Art History, recommended by Charlotte Mullins
The critic Charlotte Mullins, author of A Little History of Art, recommends five books that have altered her understanding of art history. Too often, she argues, we have forgotten that our concept of the past is deeply influenced by the views of those who wrote about it first; these readable, well-researched books offer readers a fresh perspective.
