The Art Bulletin articles from December 2005

The Art Bulletin archives from December 2005

As excrement to sacrament: the dissimulated pagan idol of Ste-Marie d'Oloron.(art history research)(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2005... For if pagans... dedicate temples and statues--more through excrements than through sacraments--to the demons who deceive them... should we not therefore take still more trouble to dedicate to God our Saviour the churches and...

Fount of mercy, city of blood: cultic anti-Judaism and the Pulkau Passion Altarpiece.(art history research)(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2005... In 1931 the German Benedictine scholar Romuald Bauerreiss, who thirty years later would write the definitive church history for Bavaria in seven volumes, published a small book entitled Pie Jesu: Das Schmerzensmannbild und sein Einfluss auf die...

Myth and the New Science: Vico, Tiepolo, and the language of the optimates.(Giovanni Battista Vico/Giovani Battista Tiepolo)(The Enlightenment)(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2005... Although the work of the Neapolitan philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744) has been the object of considerable attention since the nineteenth century, his writings had virtually no impact on the main currents of Enlightenment thought....

Everyday life in motion: the art of walking in late-nineteenth-century Paris.(architecture)(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2005... Ambulare, postea laborare. --Edgar Degas to Bartholome, [1883] (1) Always a city for walking, Paris became much more conspicuously so during the second half of the nineteenth century, as Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann's urban...

Nihonga meets Gu Kaizhi: a Japanese copy of a Chinese painting in the British Museum.(art history research)(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2005... Recently, a new attitude of pluralism in the West and elsewhere toward the diverse cultures of the globe has spurred the wider use of a notion of "world art" or "world cultures." There are now museum collections and university departments of...

The artist as ethnographer: Charles Cordier and race in mid-nineteenth-century France.(book)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Facing the Other: Charles Cordier, Ethnographic Sculptor Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, October 12, 2004-January 13, 2005 Laure de Margerie and Edouard Papet, with contributions by Christine Barthe and Maria Vigli, Facing the Other:...

"Wanderstrassen der Kultur": Die Aby Warburg-Fritz Saxl Korrespondenz 1920 bis 1929.(book)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... DOROTHEA MCEWAN "Wanderstrassen der Kultur": Die Aby Warburg-Fritz Saxl Korrespondenz 1920 bis 1929 Munich: Dolling und Galitz, 2004. 220 pp.; 32 b/w ills. [euro]19.80 Aby Warburg (1866-1929) is today universally acknowledged one...

Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.(book)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... MARY D. SHERIFF Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 320 pp.; 63 halftones. $35.00 One of the more notable lines in Pierre Marivaux's The Game...

Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain.(book)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... TIM BARRINGER Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005, 392 pp.; 33 color ills., 113 b/w. $65.00 Orange signs emblazoned "Men at...

Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp.(book)(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... MICHAEL LEJA Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 300 pp.; 24 color ills.; 84 b/w. $49.95 Looking Askance is an important contribution to American art...

Books received (April-July 2005).(The Art Bulletin)(Bibliography)
December 1, 2005... ADAMS, LAURIE SCHNEIDER. A History of Western Art, 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2004. 615 pp.; many color and b/w ills. Paper (0072997680) ALBEE, EDWARD, AND RAPHAEL RUBENSTEIN. Heide Fasnacht: Strange Attractors....

Reviews online (June-July 2005).(http://www.caareviews.org)(Bibliography)
December 1, 2005... caa.reviews, published by the College Art Association, is an online journal devoted to the peer review of new books, exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art and art history. To access a review, type in the URL...