John David Summers (born 1941[1]) is the Emeritus William R. Kenan Jr.
Among his main contributions to art history is the publication Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism.
[3] This nearly seven-hundred-page book is the result of twenty years of studies and is an attempt to reformulate the disciplinary approach of art history.
[4] Summers is the older brother of the writer Marilynne Robinson.
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