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...most distinguished art historians last fortnight published the year's soundest, handsomest, most massive (eight and a half pounds) art book. The historian is 51-year-old German-born Erwin Panofsky, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. The book is Albrecht Dürer (Princeton University Press; $20), a two-volume analytical study of Germany's great post-medieval engraver, painter, art theorist. It is the most useful and enlightening Dürer monograph yet to appear...
Historian Panofsky has studied Dürer ever since his German student days, has worked on this book for the last two years. The present Dürer volumes are addressed to art lovers rather than to art scholars. But Albrecht Dürer is not a "popular" book: it is a painstaking development of the intricately erudite lectures delivered by its author at Northwestern University...
...Rockwell is commercial? ... If so, would you say that the work of Michelangelo, Franz Hals and Velasquez is also not art? They did their stuff to order for the Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like) into the tired and commonplace? And if so, where does that leave Raphael, Correggio, Botticelli & Co.? . . . My impulse is to say "Nuts...
...rnberg, the ancient walled town of Cobbler-Poet Hans Sachs and Painter Albrecht Durer, is ringed with war plants. Historic buildings, including Dürer's home (see cut), airplane factories, U-boat engine works, tank factories and railroad centers, crumbled under R.A.F. bombs...
...contemporary artists usually limit their prints to sets of 25 to 200 copies, destroying their plates after they have printed the limited number. Unlike the great printmakers of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, who sold their prints for a song (Hogarth: 25? to $1.75; Goya: 30?; Dürer: 80? to $2.40), modern printmakers sometimes get as much as $100, occasionally (Zorn, Cameron, Benson, McBey) two or three times that much. But the average good print price seldom exceeds...