The Art Bulletin articles from June 2005

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2005

A borderland colloquy: Altar Q, Copan, Honduras.(shrines, palaces, and burial structures of Copan's royal architectural complex)
June 1, 2005... In the mid-eighth century CE, the Maya polity of Copan, Honduras, was the richest urban center in the hill country to the southeast of Guatemala's Motagua River. The shrines, palaces, and burial structures of Copan's royal architectural...

Nature and the chapel vaults at Ingolstadt: structuralist and other perspectives.(Cover Story)
June 1, 2005... The sixteenth century saw the creation of remarkable works of Gothic architecture, highly innovative in technical and decorative aspects, and none more so than the six western chapels in the Church of Our Lady in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Here we...

Iconoclasm and the creation of images in Emanuel de witte's old church in Amsterdam.
June 1, 2005... Nothing disappears completely...; nor can what subsists be defined solely in terms of traces, memories or relics. In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows. The preconditions of social space have their own...

Wright's Baghdad opera house and Gammage Auditorium: in search of regional modernity.
June 1, 2005... The Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium for Arizona State University in Tempe was the last major nonresidential building that Frank Lloyd Wright began to design before his death in April 1959 (Fig. 1). The structure has an uncertain position in...

Caribbean Espiritismo (Spiritist) altars: the Indian and the Congo.
June 1, 2005... Accompanied by my colleague Mildred Riviera-Martinez, on Sunday, June 29, 1997, I drove along the new autopista leading out of San Juan, Puerto Rico, toward Guyama. As we traveled by old sugarcane fields, I smiled to myself; I knew we were in...

The aesthetics of Orthodox faith.(Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557))(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 23-July 4, 2004 Helen C. Evans, ed., Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale...

The Graven Image: Representations in Babylonia and Assyria.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... ZAINAB BAHRANI The Graven Image: Representations in Babylonia and Assyria Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 256 pp., 28 b/w ills. $49.95 Zainab Bahrani undertakes in The Graven Image to locate and describe the...

Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... ANDREW M. WATSKY Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 368 pp.; 64 color ills.; 86 h/w. $45.00 Postmodern yearning to overcome the fragmentations of modernity by...

Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History.(Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam)(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... AMY GOLAHNY Rembrandt's Reading: The Artist's Bookshelf of Ancient Poetry and History Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2003. 283 pp.; 8 color ills.; 64 b/w. $50.00 MICHAEL...

U.S. and Canadian dissertations, 2004.
June 1, 2005... Dissertations in Progess by Subject African Art (sub-Saharan) BORTOLOT, ALEXANDER, "Negotiating Masculinity: Male Initiation and Associated Arts of the Makonde Peoples" (Columbia, N. Kampen) BRIDGES, NICHOLE, "Contact, Commentary,...

Books received (November 2004-January 2005).
June 1, 2005... ABERTH, SUSAN L., Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy, and Art. Burlington, Vt.: Lund Humphries, 2004. 160 pp.; 95 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. $60.00 (0853319081) ADAMS, BRUCE. Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at...

Reviews online (December 2004-March 2005).
June 1, 2005... ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada. Exh. review. Reviewed by Nadine M. Orenstein. DAVIES, DAVID, AND JOHN ELLIOTT. El Greco. London: National Gallery Company, 2003. Catalogue entries by...