Art has its geographies as well as its histories, as two very different books emphasise. Michael Hall unfolds the map.(Atlas of World Art)(Toward a Geography of Art)(Book Review)

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Atlas of World Art Edited by John Onians Lawrence King Publishing, 75 [pounds sterling]/O.U.P., $150 ISBN 1-85669-377-5 (UK) 0-19521-583-4 (US) Toward a Geography of Art Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann The University ct Chicago Press, 17.50 [pounds sterling] ($25) ISBN 0-226-13312-5

All lecturers dread questions that unwittingly reveal embarrassing gaps in their knowledge, and there are few embarrassments greater than geographical ignorance. 'Where is Silesia?' I was once asked after lecturing on Ferdinand Rothschild, whose father owned a schloss there; luckily there was no ...

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