Robert A. Baron: Papers on Art History, Museology and Criticism

II. Papers in Art History, Museology, Photography and Criticism:

Review Essay: Images and Icons:
The Making and Unmaking of Pictures for Mass Consumption
Reviews of Firecrackers: The Art and History,
Katie and the Mona Lisa, Photomosaic Portraits
from Visual Resources, vol 17, 2001

The Publish and Perish Journal
Volume One | Volume Two
highlighting recent studies in the history of art and architecture
that mark the just endings of doubtful scholarly careers

Review: Tony Bennett, The Birth of the Museum
Based on versions published in Culturefront, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Summer 1996), p. 66 and in
Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 1996), p. 203.

Mona Lisa Images for the Modern World
An essay studying the myriad manifestations of Leonardo's Mona Lisa in modern society.
An attempt is made to understand the significance of the popularity of this famous image and
to trace its sources in the history of art.
Mona Lisa Images for the Modern World: A Teacher's Guide

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A work in progress:
Woodcuts of Bernard Salomon
a. The Aesop Cycle: b. Aesop Images

Bernard Salomon's Emblems for the Triumphs of Petrarch
An abstract for a paper discussing the iconography of these interesting emblems
and studying the transition from narrative to iconic depictions.
Now including drafts of parts of the paper.

Emblem and Narrative in Bernard Salomon's
Illustrations to the Old Testament
(Text & Sub-Text in Bernard Salomon's woodcuts for the Book of Joshua)
Currently under construction (07/04)

IFA French Renaissance Seminar
Bernard Salomon Files

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What’s Wrong with the way we judge Competition photography,
and how did it get that way, December 2006.
Tracing the origins of the so-called "rules" of composition used in amateur club photography to
Wolfflin's "Principles of Art History." Presented to the Color Camera Club of White Plains, NY
and to the Westchester Photographic Society, New York