Roof Life

by Svetlana Alpers

A celebrated art historian who has spent a lifetime looking at art writes about looking as a way of being in the world

This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300182759
• ISBN13: 9780300182750
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 9.1"