by Jon Lackman | 28 November 2007 | Books
Alexandra Mangel recently reviewed for Deutschlandradio art historian Alessandro Nova‘s “Das Buch des Windes” (“The Book of Winds”), an historical survey of the visual depiction of wind:
… a convincing combination of excitingly told history and basic course in method. This results essentially from his clever choice of subject: Because the wind itself is invisible, its representations allow the cultural techniques of an age to be all the more clearly recognized. And: the wind blows into one’s own face every day. Thus unfolds the delightful capability of the art historian to enrich perception through knowledge.
