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Recent articles from The Art Bulletin

The Art Bulletin at One Hundred
March 1, 2013... March 2013 marks the centenary of The Art Bulletin. At the front of this issue the reader will see how the journal's cover appeared one hundred years ago. A similar font appears on today's covers, but the format is larger, and each cover includes a photograph. Art historians may put these...

Martha Rosler
March 1, 2013... Where does meaning reside? How do we read the shape of significance in things imbued with human interest? We can regard the embodiment of something, its objectness, separately from its physical existence and irrespective of its presence. Fixity is never far from human imaginings, from within...

Caroline Walker Bynum
March 1, 2013... We have long been told that theology in the European Middle Ages attributed to religious images a threefold function of teaching doctrine, preserving memory, and triggering a turn toward the divine. Or, as the titles of two important recent volumes put it, they induced "looking beyond" or...

Natasha Eaton
March 1, 2013... Holi--the coming of the Hindu New Year (Fig. 1)--is associated not only with the love between Radha and Krishna but also with the bravery of Holika, who, to save her devout nephew Prahlad from his evil father, sacrificed herself by immolation. Holi, as either Krishna's water play--the spraying...

Michael Ann Holly
March 1, 2013... The most recent National Geographic (June 2012) arrived yesterday as I began to write this "note from the field" and now lies on my desk open to a fascinating cover story on solar storms and the dangers they pose for this planet's technology. Replete with stunning ultraviolet photographs of the...