The Art Bulletin articles from June 2004

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2004

Editor's note.(Editorial)
June 1, 2004... In this, my final issue as editor-in-chief, I would like to acknowledge the many colleagues who contribute to the success of The Art Bulletin. The authors, both those we have published and those we haven't, deserve first credit. The Art...

Beyond Suzhou: region and memory in the gardens of Sichuan.(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... The title of Maggie Keswick's book The Chinese Garden, which has served as American readers' most popular introduction to this topic since 1978, provides both a label and a limit for the study of Chinese gardens. (1) Put in the singular, it...

The Tang architectural icon and the politics of Chinese architectural history.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... The discovery in June 1937 of a wooden building, the east hall of Foguang Monastery, reliably dated to the year 857 by two inscriptions, one on the building itself and the other on a small, octagonal, commemorative pillar with Buddhist imagery,...

Durer's Melencolia I: Plato's abandoned search for the beautiful.(Albrecht Durer, German printmaker)(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... The literature on Melancholia is more extensive than that on any other engraving by Durer: that statement would probably remain true if the last two words were omitted.--Campbell Dodgson, 1926 (1) Anyone familiar with the history...

This was tomorrow: Pieter Aertsen's Meat Stall as contemporary art.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
June 1, 2004... How can the individual work, which positivistic... history has determined in a chronological series and thereby reduced to the status of a "fact," be brought back into its historical-sequential relationship and thereby once...

Foods and the body in Italian genre paintings, about 1580: Campi, Passarotti, Carracci.(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... Butchers, fish vendors, and poultry sellers appear quite abruptly in northern Italian art, in paintings by Vincenzo Campi, Bartolomeo Passarotti, and Annibale Carracci, all made in Cremona and Bologna between about 1580 and 1585. (1) Curiously,...

Benjamin West, John Galt, and the biography of 1816.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
June 1, 2004... "Incalculable" was William Dunlap's estimation of Benjamin West's effect on American art. In his History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (1834), he lionized West as the first internationally famous,...

In the Manner of Duchamp, 1942-47: the years of the "mirrorical return".(Critical Essay)
June 1, 2004... New Yorkers out on the town for an evening of art in late October 1942 would have found Paul Delvaux's Aurore (1937) holding pride of place at the far end of the long, narrow room that displayed Surrealist works in Peggy Guggenheim's newly...

Bild-Anthropologie: Entwurfe fur eine Bildwissenschaft.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... HANS BELTING Bild-Anthropologie: Entwurfe fur eine Bildwissenschaft Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2001, 280 pp.; 180 b/w ills. 25.20 Euros Hans Belting's recent collection of essays on effigies, masks, mummies, ancestor portraits, cult...

Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... DAVID SUMMERS Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism London: Phaidon. 2003. 707 pp., 343 b/w ills. $75.00 Far and away the most pressing problem facing the discipline of art history is the prospect of...

Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... LOTHAR LEDDEROSE Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1998. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Bollingen Series xxxv: 46 Princeton: Princeton...

Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... NANCY J. TROY Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. 438 pp.; 150 b/w ills. $39.95 In 1863, Charles Baudelaire located a set of markers for modernity in the fugitive aspects of fashion...

Dissertations in progress by subject.(U.S. Dissertations, 2003)
June 1, 2004... African Art (sub-Saharan) ANDERSON, SEAN S., "In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and Its Representation in Colonial Eritrea from 1890 to 1941" (UCLA, S. Nelson) BORTOLOT, ALEXANDER, "Negotiating Masculinity: Male Initiation and...

Books received: June.
June 1, 2004... AAV, MARIANNE, ED. Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture. Exh. cat. New York: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, in association with Yale University Press, 2003. 286 pp.; 300 color ills.; 85 b/w...

Reviews online (December 2003 January 2004).
June 1, 2004... 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....