The Art Bulletin articles from December 2002

The Art Bulletin archives from December 2002

The Water Mill and Northern Song imperial patronage of art, commerce, and science.(China)
December 1, 2002... The Chinese painting of architectural subjects--buildings, boats, wheeled vehicles, and other mechanical apparatuses--is called jiehua. (1) The term translates literally as "ruler-lined painting," meaning that the painter uses not only the...

"Fare una cosa morta parer viva": Michelangelo, Rosso, and the (un)divinity of art.(Rosso Fiorentino)
December 1, 2002... ... because painting comes from Shades, and Sculpture from Idols.--Anton Francesco Doni, 1549 (1) Whenever (as very rarely happens) a great painter makes a work that seems false and deceitful, that falseness is truth, and greater truth in...

The demonic arts and the origin of the medium.
December 1, 2002... Guiding us through his exercises in skepticism, seeking to show us how our world might be illusory, Rene Descartes first invokes the condition of the dream: Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that none of these...

Between cult and culture: Bamiyan, Islamic iconoclasm, and the museum.(Afghanistan)
December 1, 2002... He turned his head like an old tortoise in the sunlight. "Is it true that there are many images in the Wonder House of Lahore?" He repeated the last words as one making sure of an address. "That is true," said Abdullah. "It is full of heathen...

Mourning and method.
December 1, 2002... In the sight of an old pair of shoes there is something profoundly melancholy.--attributed to Gustave Flaubert Why do we write about works of visual art in the first place? Why do subjects (us) need to talk about objects? What kind of a...

"Some things bear fruit"? Witnessing the bonds between Van Gogh and Gauguin. (Exhibition Review).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South The Art Institute of Chicago, September 22, 2001--January 13, 2002 and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, February 9--June 2, 2002 Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers in collaboration with...

The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... ANITA ALBUS The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting Trans. Michael Robertson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 386 pp., 20 color ills., 12 b/w. $35.00 paper German artist and writer Anita...

Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... JONATHAN HAY Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 412 pp.; 22 color ills., 220 b/w. $95.00 An intriguing phenomenon of the field of art history in recent years is the...

Manet and the Family Romance & Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth Century Painting. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... NANCY LOCKE Manet and the Family Romance Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 232 pp.; 98 b/w ills. $55.00 SUSAN SIDLAUSKAS Body, Place, and Self in Nineteenth Century Painting Cambridge: Cambridge University...

Art in France 1900-1940. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... CHRISTOPHER GREEN Art in France 1900-1940 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 321 pp.; 80 color ills., 320 b/w. $75.00 Surveys are a difficult genre. The author has somehow to contrive a text that will conduct readers,...

Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America & Ambition and Love in Modern American Art. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... MATTHEW BAIGELL Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 294 pp.; 47 b/w ills. $75.00; $28.00 paper JONATHAN WEINBERG Ambition and Love in Modern American Art New Haven:...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
December 1, 2002... In "Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth-Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji" (March 2002), the correct caption for Fig. 14, reproduced on page 42, is: Womb World mandala, hanging scroll, gold and color on indigo-dyed silk, 35 1/2 X 31 1/8 in....

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... "Living Memorials" after the Civil War I recently read with interest Andrew M. Shanken's revealing and timely (given 9/11) examination of memorials during World War II ("Planning Memory: Living Memorials in the United States during World...

Books received.
December 1, 2002... (July-August 2002) AHL, DIANE COLE, ED. The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 312 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0521660459) APEL, DORA. Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary...