1983 (A Merman Should I Turn to Be)

Aside from being the name of an exceptionally fine song by Jimi Hendrix, 1983 is the year of publication for a surprisingly persistent array of scholarly works. Old Ken has no real point with this, but I offer you the following list. Please feel free to update or editorialize as you will!

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard UP, 1983)

Svetana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 1983)

Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science (Cambridge UP, 1983)

Nancy Cartwright, How the Laws of Physics Lie (Oxford UP, 1983)

Anthony Vidler, Follies: Architecture for the Late Twentieth Century Landscape (Rizzoli, 1983)