A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso
Por Paul Barolsky
A reference to RLSK, detective stories and “find the author” mysteries.
One of the rewies: “Paul Barolsky, our best art writer, is a miraculously economical stylist with a happily reliable sense of humor. God was sometimes a failed artist, he argues, much like Picasso. Moving very quickly, with reference to Homer, Ovid, Dante, Vasari, Balzac, and some detective novels, his book tells the history of European visual culture. Vladimir Nabokov could hardly have done better.”
Walter Pater's Renaissance
About this title: This highly original and learned book is the first to study in detail Walter Pater's The Renaissance and examine the literary traditions to which it belongs: poetry, fiction, history, and criticism. Exploring Pater's neglected playfulness--his uses of irony, paradox, and parody--it traces with sparkling wit and elegance Pater's relations to poetry from Baudelaire to Ashbery; to fiction from Hugo and Flaubert to Virginia Woolf and Nabokov. Pater's role in the history of modern criticism from Hazlitt and Gautier to Eliot, ... 
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