The Art Bulletin articles from June 2002

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2002

Changing patterns of divinity and reform in the late Northern Wei.
June 1, 2002... As has frequently been noted, an abrupt change in the artistic rendering of Buddhist sculptural images in northern China occurred around the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth centuries of the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534). In the...

Hebrew manuscript painting in late medieval Spain: sings of culture in transition.
June 1, 2002... Two different worlds present themselves to the scholar of Hebrew illuminated manuscripts from Spain. Two distinct artistic idioms reflect the history of Spanish medieval Jewry, its cultural identities, its socioeconomic background, and its...

The chapel of the courtesan and the quarrel of the Magdalens.
June 1, 2002... When Raphael died in 1520, his workshop in Rome was jointly inherited by his two leading pupils, Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni. Among the numerous projects they undertook before Giulio's departure from Rome for Mantua in 1524 was the...

New light on the Capponi Chapel in S. Felicita.
June 1, 2002... Few Renaissance chapels have preoccupied modern scholars as much as the Capponi Chapel in the Florentine church of S. Felicita (Fig. 1). Seen today through the filter of many later modifications and revisions, the sober Brunelleschian...

Between representations: the historical and the visionary in Chen Hongshou's Yaji.
June 1, 2002... Some time between late 1646 and early 1647, Chen Hongshou (1598--1652) painted an unusual image of nine men gathered in a wooded close, their company undisturbed by the appearance of a bodhisattva (Figs. 1, 9). He presented the handscroll, now...

Thomas Cole's River in the Catskills as antipastoral.
June 1, 2002... The hurry noise & restlessness of Rail Road travelling with the consequent violence done to all the natural requirements of the body are anything but conducive to health of body or serenity of mind. The body is made to be merely a sort of...

After iconography and iconoclasm: current research in Netherlandish art, 1566-1700.
June 1, 2002... Like so many fields of art history, the study of seventeenth-century Netherlandish art was energized two decades ago by a new awareness that business as usual--Berensonian connoisseurship, Wolfflinian history of style, Panofskian...

Thomas Crow: The Intelligence of Art. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... THOMAS CROW The intelligence of art. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 120 pp.; 12 color ills., 34 b/w. $34.95 The Intelligence of Art is the first publication of the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art...

Olga Hazan: Le mythe du progres artistique. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... OLGA HAZAN Le mythe du progres artistique. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 1999. 454 pp.; 15 color ills., 2 b/w. $34.95 (Canadian) paper. In 1936 Lionello Venturi, discussing "the historical-philological method...

Diane Wolfthal; Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... DIANE WOLFTHAL Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 286 pp., 118 b/w ills. $74.95 Images of erotic domination and outright sexual violence hold an indisputably...

Carmen C. Bambach; Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600. (Book Reviews).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... CARMEN C. BAMBACH Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 548 pp., 14 color ills., 300 b/w. $125. In his fundamental study published in...

Jodi Cranston: The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... JODI CRANSTON The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 258 pp., 69 b/w ills. $90.00 John Pope-Hennessy's reprise of his Mellon Lectures, The Portrait in the Renaissance...

Alex Potts; The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist. (Book Reviews).
June 1, 2002... ALEX POTTS The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 432 pp.; 50 color ills., 115 b/w. $55.00 Nearly twenty years after controversy erupted over Richard Serra's Tilted...

U.S. Dissertations, 2001.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2002... The following lists of Dissertations in Progress and Dissertations Completed cover the period from December 1, 2000, to November 30, 2001. The lists are based on information submitted to The Art Bulletin via email by schools. Note that some...

Books Received.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2002... January-March 2002 ABT, JEFEREY, A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882 to 2000. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 315 pp.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (0814328415) ADRIANI, GOTZ....