The Art Bulletin articles from June 1995

The Art Bulletin archives from June 1995

Modern French painting and the art museum.(The Problematics of Collecting and Display, part 2)
June 1, 1995... For most members of the public, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting is the glory of large-scale American art museums. The Impressionist galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of...

Re-visioning Asian arts in the 1990s: reflections of a museum professional.(The Problematics of Collecting and Display, part 2)
June 1, 1995... Not long ago, The Asia Society organized two very different exhibitions, which were on view simultaneously and generated responses relevant to the discussion of the display and perception of Asian arts in the West. One of the exhibitions, "Buddha...

The politics of display or the display of politics?(The Problematics of Collecting and Display, part 2)
June 1, 1995... In recent years the policies and politics of collecting and display, the history of museums, and the nature and role of exhibitions and world fairs have garnered increasing attention from scholars in various disciplines.(1) The popularity of...

The game of the name. (natural history collections)(The Problematics of Collecting and Display, part 2)
June 1, 1995... The Uncurated Jar The specimens in this jar [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED] were placed there by the collector W. H. van Heurn in the mid-1950s and have passed into the Natural History Museum in Leiden, The Netherlands, unchanged in their...

Monuments, martyrdom, and the politics of religion in the French third republic.
June 1, 1995... French political life, in the decades preceding World War I, was characterized by an instability and polarization which infected virtually every aspect of the nation's culture. The Dreyfus Affair proved all the more traumatic for occurring at a...

Redefining the past: revolutionary architecture and the Conseil des Batiments Civils.
June 1, 1995... The coupling of the Words "architecture" and "French Revolution" still calls to mind fantastic images of visionary creations - such as the abstracted forms of Ledoux's city of Chaux, or the sublime proportions of Boullee's civic monuments. While...

Family members and political allies: the portrait collection of Margaret of Austria.
June 1, 1995... Among the early sixteenth-century collections in the Netherlands the art collection of Margaret of Austria was exceptional in terms of its size and quality.(1) It included paintings such as the Arnolfini Wedding by Jan van Eyck and the Passion...

Miraculous childbirth and the Portinari altarpiece.
June 1, 1995... Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece is perhaps the single most studied Flemish painting of the later fifteenth century ([ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]). As the painter's key work, and one of the largest, best-preserved, and most...

Andrea di Bonaiuto's 'Via Veritatis' and Dominican thought in late medieval Italy.
June 1, 1995... The Dominican priory of S. Maria Novella in Florence is not only a religious institution but also an impressive museum of late medieval and Renaissance art and architecture. Behind Leone Battista Alberti's grand quattrocento facade it contains...

The Bastides of southwest France. (French public architecture)
June 1, 1995... That every meaningful city represents a political system has always been known. Political science developed from the designs for a complete polis. The rules of order which cities have formed certify also those of the state by which they are...

Architectural symbolism and the decoration of the Ste.-Chapelle.
June 1, 1995... The dedication of the Ste.-Chapelle on April 26, 1248, not only marked the completion of a repository worthy of the sacred relics of the Passion, recently acquired from Constantinople by Louis IX, but the event also consecrated a new locus...

Le Vitrail: Vocabulaire typologique et technique.
June 1, 1995... Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is well served by this broad spectrum of books. For Lucien Magne, writing on the art of stained glass in 1885, France could boast two great eras, the 13th and...

Les Vitraux de Saint-Nicolas-de-Port.
June 1, 1995... Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is well served by this broad spectrum of books. For Lucien Magne, writing on the art of stained glass in 1885, France could boast two great eras, the 13th and...

Les Vitraux narratifs de la cathedrale de Chartres: Etude iconographique.
June 1, 1995... Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is well served by this broad spectrum of books. For Lucien Magne, writing on the art of stained glass in 1885, France could boast two great eras, the 13th and...

Stained Glass in England During the Middle Ages.
June 1, 1995... Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is well served by this broad spectrum of books. For Lucien Magne, writing on the art of stained glass in 1885, France could boast two great eras, the 13th and...

Bread, Wine, and Money: The Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral.
June 1, 1995... Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is well served by this broad spectrum of books. For Lucien Magne, writing on the art of stained glass in 1885, France could boast two great eras, the 13th and the...

Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in 17th-Century Milan.
June 1, 1995... Scions of princely families, beneficiaries of pontifical patronage, members of the sacred college, and kinsmen, Archbishops Alessandro Farnese and Federico Borromeo engaged in mecenatismo on a grand scale, using patronage to signify their...

'Il Gran Cardinale': Alessandro Farnese, Patron of the Arts.
June 1, 1995... Scions of princely families, beneficiaries of pontifical patronage, members of the sacred college, and kinsmen, Archbishops Alessandro Farnese and Federico Borromeo engaged in mecenatismo on a grand scale, using patronage to signify their support...

Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics and the Origins of the Modern Museum in 18th-Century Paris.
June 1, 1995... In the course of the 18th century the European cultural sphere was radically reconfigured, and the two volumes under review considerably advance our understanding of the relevant Habermassian dynamics as they played themselves out in...

Charles Nicolas Cochin et l'art des Lumieres.
June 1, 1995... In the course of the 18th century the European cultural sphere was radically reconfigured, and the two volumes under review considerably advance our understanding of the relevant Habermassian dynamics as they played themselves out in...

Atget's Seven Albums.
June 1, 1995... Over the last fifteen years photography has become an increasingly serious subject of study, embraced by new critical theory, integrated into the art-history curriculum and highly valued in the art market. There is a growing interest in the...

Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871.
June 1, 1995... Over the last fifteen years photography has become an increasingly serious subject of study, embraced by new critical theory, integrated into the art-history curriculum and highly valued in the art market. There is a growing interest in the...

The Collages of Kurt Schwitters: Tradition and Innovation.
June 1, 1995... As a contribution to anglophone criticism of the work of Kurt Schwitters, Dorothea Dietrich's monograph adopts an approach midway between the panoramic inclusiveness of a John Elderfield and the sharp focus upon single images of an Annegreth...

Perspective as Symbolic Form.
June 1, 1995... Nearly seventy years after its composition, Erwin Panofsky's "Die Perspektive als 'symbolische Form'" remains required reading for anyone studying the historiography of perspective, and it continues to figure in the nature/culture debates about...