Contemporary Art in the Light of History

Understand modern art through its links with art of the...

Erwin Rosenthal, historian, antiquarian, and scion of the famous Jacques Rosenthal "dynasty" of antiquarian book and manuscript dealers, was born in Germany. He came to the United States in the 1930s, where his lectures and publications were highly praised. Deborah M. Rosenthal is Consulting Editor for the series. She is a painter who has shown in New York and nationally during the past twenty-five years. For her writing on art in many journals, including Art in America and Modern Painters, she won an NEA Critic's Grant. She is Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Fine and Performing Arts of Rider University. Lance Esplund is the U.S. art critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. Previously, he was a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, chief art critic for the New York Sun, and editorial board member and New York correspondent for Modern Painters Magazine.