Revising Art History’s Big Book: Who’s In and Who Comes Out?

The NYTimes Says The first thoroughly revised version of “Janson’s History of Art” will undoubtedly surprise many of the book’s loyalists.
This month, the publisher Pearson Prentice Hall is introducing the first thoroughly revised version of “Janson’s History of Art,” a doorstopper first published in 1962 that has been a classroom hit ever since Horst Woldemar Janson wrote it while working at New York University. For a generation of baby boomers, it defined what was what and who was who in art, from Angelico (Fra) to Zurbarán (Francisco de).