The various authors do an admirable job of bringing Sicily to life and making their ideas available to the English-language reader

and a transcription of a colloquium on the photographer's life and work

The result is a volume of essays that makes a strong case for recuperating provenance—what contributing author Anne Higonnet calls “so many epic tales compressed into such dry lists”—for the history of art

from Roman annexation to the Arab conquest

Photographic is a biography unlike any of its predecessors

Notes toward a Conditional Art Pubs Excluded The various authors do anRobert Irwin Introduced and edited by Matthew Simms Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early 80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in what he terms conditional art or site conditioned work. In addition to being a prolific artist, Irwin has been an active writer throughout his career.