The Art Bulletin articles from December 2006

The Art Bulletin archives from December 2006

The performative icon.(Byzantine Art)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... Icon (ikon, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) in Greek is understood as image, representation, and portrait. In Byzantium the word also acquired a very specific meaning as a portable portrait of Christ, the Virgin, and saints with scenes from...

Building churches in Armenia: art at the borders of empire and the edge of the canon.
December 1, 2006... Between the index entries for "Arles" and "arms and armor" in most general studies of medieval art is a thin rectangle of white space. For those seeking "Armenia," this interval is as familiar as it is bleak, for the cultures of the...

Lesser Brothers: Franciscan mission and identity at Assisi.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... The brilliant mastery of the artist dubbed the Isaac Master has led numerous scholars to speculate on his identity and assess his impact on the development of art in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. Few, however, have questioned the...

A point "ceaselessly pushed back": the origin of early Netherlandish painting.(Viewpoint essay)
December 1, 2006... When the Greek patriarch Gregory Melissenos visited Florence in 1438 for the Council of Ferrara-Florence, he had this response to the images he saw: "When I enter a Latin church, I can pray to none of the saints depicted there because I...

Theophile Silvestre's Histoire des artistes vivants: art criticism and photography.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... In its ambition and its novelty, Theophile Silvestre's Histoire des artistes vivants francais et etrangers: Etudes d'apres nature was arguably the most important large-scale project of contemporary art critical biography of the nineteenth...

Framing St. Peter's: urban planning in Fascist Rome.
December 1, 2006... The Via della Conciliazione in Rome is the thoroughfare that leads to St. Peter's basilica in Rome (Fig. 1). The construction of the "Street of the Reconciliation," which entailed gutting the medieval neighborhood in front of the Vatican known...

Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... THOMAS PUTTFARKEN Titian and Tragic Painting: Aristotle's Poetics and the Rise of the Modern Artist New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 256 pp.; 20 color ills. and 65 b/w. $50.00 It's impossible to overestimate the importance...

The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... ELIZABETH CROPPER The Domenichino Affair: Novelty, Imitation, and Theft in Seventeenth-Century Rome New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 266 pp.; 10 color ills., 70 b/w. $50.00 In the mid-1620s, the story goes, the simmering...

Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s.(Book review)
December 1, 2006... PAMELA M. LEE Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004. 368 pp.; 66 b/w ills. $34.95; $22.95 paper The emergence of contemporary art history is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was not so...

Books received April-June 2006.
December 1, 2006... ADAMS, ROBERT. Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006. 112 pp.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (1597110043) ADLER, KATHLEEN. Mary Cassatt Prints. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 32 pp.; 21...

Reviews online (May-July 2006).
December 1, 2006... caa.reviews, published online 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...