James S. Ackerman

Details

Nationality

American

Notes

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, Harvard. Editor of Lotz's English-language Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture; author of Origins, Imitation, Conventions (2002).

Connections

• proposed The section as analytic instrument
• authored Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts
• collaborated with Wolfgang Lotz
• associated with Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective

Sources

1. James S. Ackerman. Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts. MIT Press, 2002.
2. James S. Ackerman. Palladio. Penguin Books (Pelican History of Art), 1966.
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 17 of 18