The essential roadmap to the ideas and debates that have formed the history of art, told through 16 key books published over the course of the 20th century. - 'Émile Mâle, L'art religieux du XIIIe siècle en France, 1898' by Alexandra Gajewski - 'Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, 1903' by Carmen C. Bambach - 'Heinrich Wölfflin, Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe, 1915' by David Summers - 'Roger Fry, Cézanne: A Study of His Development, 1927' by Richard Verdi - 'Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of the Modern Movement, 1936' by Colin Amery - 'Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public, 1951' by John Elderfield - 'Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 1953' by Susie Nash - 'Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, 1956' by John-Paul Stonard - 'E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, 1960' by Christopher S. Wood - 'Clement Greenberg, Art and Culture, 1961' by Boris Groys - 'Francis Haskell, A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque, 1963' by Louise Rice - 'Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972' by Paul Hills - 'T. J. Clark, Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution, 1973' by Alastair Wright - 'Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century, 1983' by Mariët Westermann - 'Rosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, 1985' by Anna Lovatt - 'Hans Belting, Bild und Kult, 1990' by Jeffrey Hamburger