Margaret Iversen is professor of the history of art at the University of Essex and the author of Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes, among other titles. Stephen Melville is professor emeritus of the history of art at Ohio State University and the author of Seams: Art as Philosophical Context and other works.

"Filled with rich and probing accounts of many of art history's most noted writers, this book shows how, through the writing of art history, deep changes have been encouraged and effected in our modes of contemplation and judgment." - Lydia Goehr, Columbia University"

Margaret Iversen is professor of the history of art at the University of Essex and the author of Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes, among other titles. Stephen Melville is professor emeritus of the history of art at Ohio State University and the author of Seams: Art as Philosophical Context and other works.

"Filled with rich and probing accounts of many of art history's most noted writers, this book shows how, through the writing of art history, deep changes have been encouraged and effected in our modes of contemplation and judgment." - Lydia Goehr, Columbia University"

Margaret Iversen is professor of the history of art at the University of Essex and the author of Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes, among other titles. Stephen Melville is professor emeritus of the history of art at Ohio State University and the author of Seams: Art as Philosophical Context and other works.

"Filled with rich and probing accounts of many of art history's most noted writers, this book shows how, through the writing of art history, deep changes have been encouraged and effected in our modes of contemplation and judgment." - Lydia Goehr, Columbia University"