The arrival of early 20th-century avant-gardism is generally considered the historical tsunami that swamped the conventions of Western art dating from the Renaissance. Yet this wave had begun building ...

Neo-Romanticism may well be back in photography—at least according to photographer Neil Folberg, who is also the owner of the Vision Gallery in Jerusalem. But it isn’t simply back—Folberg believes the ...

Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...

"The essays in this book appeared originally in the New York review of books in slightly different form"--Title page verso. siris_sil_185943 ...