The Art Bulletin articles from December 1995

The Art Bulletin archives from December 1995

Vetoes and compatibilities. (art history)(Inter/disciplinarity)
December 1, 1995... Today some art historians regard interdisciplinarity (I hope to be forgiven for not using the fashionable slash) as either a remedy for the alleged narrow-mindedness and conservatism of that discipline, or, alternatively, as a weapon against that...

Masterdisciplinarity and the 'pictorial turn.' (art history)
December 1, 1995... Everyone involved in the heated debate over interdisciplinarity, curiously, appears to be on the same side. One would be hard pressed to find an art historian of any methodological stripe who was not, in some basic sense, in favor of it. All...

Interdisciplinarity and visual culture.
December 1, 1995... Vetoes and Compatibilities Today some art historians regard interdisciplinarity (I hope to be forgiven for not using the fashionable slash) as either a remedy for the alleged narrow-mindedness and conservatism of that discipline, or,...

Mapping interdisciplinarity.
December 1, 1995... The present essay constitutes a very preliminary attempt to delineate through time the changing boundaries and tolerances between "disciplinarity" and "interdisciplinarity," not only in different fields of humanistic inquiry but also in different...

Warrant for trespass/ permission to peer.
December 1, 1995... Ille. By the help of an image I call to my own opposite, summon all That I have handled least, least looked upon. Hic. And I would find myself and not an image. Ille. That is our modern hope, and by its light We have lit upon the...

Art history and images that are not art.
December 1, 1995... Most images are not art. In addition to pictures made in accord with the Western concept of art, there are also those made outside the West or in defiance, ignorance, or indifference to the idea of art. In the welter of possibilities two stand...

J.M. W. Turner's 'Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough': the cultivation of cultural dissent.
December 1, 1995... In April of 1809 Turner opened his private gallery to "the classes of Dilettanti, Connoisseurs and Artists," as he did almost every year between 1804 and 1816.(1) Among the eighteen works displayed was Ploughing Up Turnips, near Slough, one of...

Prints, salami, and cheese: savoring the Roman festival of the Chinea.
December 1, 1995... For Esther Gordon Dotson And Your Lordship well knows that just as paper has no less stability than bronze and marble, so too there is no ultramarine color as vividly expressive as ink.(1) I shall begin with the art of engraving in copper,...

Seeing the shroud: Guarini's reliquary chapel in Turin and the ostension of a dynastic relic.
December 1, 1995... Guarini's domed, centrally planned chapel of the Holy Shroud (1657-94) towers over the cathedral of S. Giovanni in Turin, architecturally announcing to visitors standing in the piazza the extraordinary importance of the relic it contains (Fig....

New identifications in Raphael's 'School of Athens.'
December 1, 1995... In the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, Raphael's School of Athens (1509-12) has long been admired as a monument to Italian Neoplatonism.(1) However, over the centuries it has posed many problems to the iconographer (Fig. 1). Beginning with...

The Phoenix Hall at Uji and the symmetries of replication. (Buddhist temple)
December 1, 1995... In 1053 the Japanese nobleman Fujiwara no Yorimichi (990-1074), of the celebrated Fujiwara family of palace aristocrats and aesthetes, witnessed the completion and consecration at his residential temple, Byodoin, of a legendary Amitabha Hall. The...

On the Museum's Ruins.
December 1, 1995... As Donald Preziosi has noted in these pages,(1) the literature on museums is immense: more has appeared in the past decade than in the previous century. Much the same can be said of the literature on collecting. This review alone considers the...

The Cultures of Collecting.
December 1, 1995... As Donald Preziosi has noted in these pages,(1) the literature on museums is immense: more has appeared in the past decade than in the previous century. Much the same can be said of the literature on collecting. This review alone considers the...

Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles.
December 1, 1995... As Donald Preziosi has noted in these pages,(1) the literature on museums is immense: more has appeared in the past decade than in the previous century. Much the same can be said of the literature on collecting. This review alone considers the...

Zenkoji and Its Icon: A Study in Medieval Japanese Religious Art.
December 1, 1995... This type of detailed monograph is exactly what Western scholarship on Japanese art needs. Much of the literature in European languages consists of broad surveys, exhibition and collection catalogues, or summary "life-and-work" profiles of...

The Origin of Perspective.
December 1, 1995... Myth is never more scandalous, never more repellent and seductive, than at the moment of its unmasking as mere myth. The mythographer flattens the chaos of narrative material into flamboyant figures and tropes. The historian, in search of the...

Le Jugement de Paris.
December 1, 1995... Myth is never more scandalous, never more repellent and seductive, than at the moment of its unmasking as mere myth. The mythographer flattens the chaos of narrative material into flamboyant figures and tropes. The historian, in search of the...

Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel.
December 1, 1995... For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes. New publications on that project are plentiful, although substantive ones have been slower to appear. The great...

Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur.
December 1, 1995... For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes. New publications on that project are plentiful, although substantive ones have been slower to appear. The great...

The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian Renaissance Art.
December 1, 1995... For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes. New publications on that project are plentiful, although substantive ones have been slower to appear. The great...

Michelangelo On and Off the Sistine Ceiling.
December 1, 1995... For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes. New publications on that project are plentiful, although substantive ones have been slower to appear. The great...

German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580: Art in an Age of Uncertainty.
December 1, 1995... Delicately carved mythological reliefs, ebullient fountains, and magnificent monuments to the great are among the subjects discussed in Jeffrey Chipps Smith's impressive German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580. The subtitle, Art...

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.
December 1, 1995... After two decades of silence, a book has finally been published which treats the work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. The artist was one of the most important painters in France in the second half of the 19th century. Hailed in the 1880s and 1890s...

The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis.
December 1, 1995... If it were true, as Mieke Bal critically reports and Jonathan Culler recounts, that some people assume there is "a general sense of what 'theory' is" such that "readers do not feel the need to ask what is meant by 'theory,'" then none of these...

Deconstruction and the Visual Arts: Art, Media, and Architecture.
December 1, 1995... If it were true, as Mieke Bal critically reports and Jonathan Culler recounts, that some people assume there is "a general sense of what 'theory' is" such that "readers do not feel the need to ask what is meant by 'theory,'" then none of these...

Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations.
December 1, 1995... If it were true, as Mieke Bal critically reports and Jonathan Culler recounts, that some people assume there is "a general sense of what 'theory' is" such that "readers do not feel the need to ask what is meant by 'theory,'" then none of these...