Canaday, John

"John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr's "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe's Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists' descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard's post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins." -- Publisher's description

In 1959 Canaday began a 17-year career as a leading art critic for the New York Times with a bold proclamation in his September 6, 1959 column, he inflamed the art establishment by proclaiming that Abstract Expressionism, the dominant style of the period, allowed 'exceptional tolerance for incompetence and deception.'

A history of Western painting and its artists. Biographical and critical essays on more than 450 individual painters, covering the development of painting from the close of the Middle Ages in Italy, when Giotto revolutionized the art of painting in the great frescoes in the Arema Chapel in Padua, down through Cezanne and his revolution in painting.

The beautiful reproductions of Michelangelo's works are presented with informative commentary.