Product Description: How do some monuments become so socially powerful that people seek to destroy them? After ignoring monuments for years, why must we now commemorate public trauma, but not triumph, with a monument? To explore these and other questions, Robert S...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Alois Riegl (1858-1905) made pioneering contributions to the history of late Roman, seventeenth century Dutch, and Baroque art. His impact on scholars, however, extended beyond art-historical circles into the fields of art theory, psychology, sociology, literary criticism, and philosophy...read more