The Art Bulletin articles from June 2006

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2006

Framing the sun: the Arch of Constantine and the Roman cityscape.
June 1, 2006... To illustrate some of the key paradigm shifts of their discipline, art historians often point to the fluctuating fortunes of the Arch of Constantine. Reviled by Raphael, revered by Alois Riegl, condemned anew by the reactionary Bernard...

A Renaissance audience considered: the nuns at S. Apollonia and Castagno's Last Supper.
June 1, 2006... It is not difficult to explain why, until relatively recently, few visitors to Florence routinely went to see Andrea del Castagno's Last Supper, although the fresco is hardly off the beaten track at S. Apollonia. Only two blocks from that...

The discourse of failure in seventeenth-century Rome: Prospero Bresciano's Moses.
June 1, 2006... This statue was the death of its sculptor, who broke his heart on account of the ridicule it excited.--Nathaniel Hawthorne, The French and Italian Notebooks (1858) (1) The Fontana dell'Acqua Felice (Figs. 1, 2) is a monumental...

The "ghosting" of incest and female relations in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci.
June 1, 2006... Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) belonged to that group of expatriate American women sculptors in Rome whom Henry James dubbed "a white marmorean flock." (1) These artists, like their male counterparts, created idealized Neoclassical works that...

The uncharted Kahn: the visuality of planning and promotion in the 1930s and 1940s.(Fazlur Rahman Khan)
June 1, 2006... An often overlooked change occurred in urban planning between the 1920s and the 1940s, one represented in the following two images. In the first, the frontispiece of a 1936 report on city planning in New York City, the allegorical figure of...

Judaic threads in the West African tapestry: no more forever?
June 1, 2006... From its inception, the newly emerging discipline of African art history encompassed only regions south of the desert and, until quite recently, it was perceived and interpreted through a bifocal lens: the Sahara, which cuts a horizontal...

Andy Warhol's silver Elvises: meaning through context at the Ferus Gallery in 1963.(Elvis Presley's images exhibition)
June 1, 2006... In the spring of 1963 Andy Warhol looked to the west. He had recently emerged as one of the most prominent of the Pop artists, with important solo shows on either coast, and now anticipated his second exhibition at the prestigious Ferus...

Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... HAL FOSTER, ROSALIND KRAUSS, YVE-ALAIN BOIS, AND BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. 2 vols.: vol. 1, 1900-1944, 352 pp., 210 color ills., 106 b/w. $46.88;...

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... SARAH E. FRASER Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 342 pp.; 43 color ills., 82 b/w. $65.00 In the ninth and tenth...

Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... PAUL BINSKI Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 343 pp.; 67 color ills., 176 b/w. $65.00 It is hardly surprising that Paul Binski's Becket's Grown is the first...

Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... RICHARD MARKS Image and Devotion in Late Medieval England Phoenix Mill, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 2004. 344 pp.; 24 color ills., 176 b/w, 15 maps. [pounds sterling]25.00 Paging through the photographs in Richard Marks's Image and...

Impressionism: Paint and Politics.(Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885 New York: Museum...

U.S. and Canadian dissertations, 2005.(Recommended readings)
June 1, 2006... Dissertations in Progress 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,...

Books received (October-December 2005).
June 1, 2006... AAGESEN, DOROTHY, ALLIS HELLELAND, AND KASPER MONRAD, EDS. Matisse: Masterpieces at Statens Museum for Kunst. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2005. 208 pp.; 64 color ills. Cloth $54.00 (8790096576) ABRAMOWICZ, JANET. Giorgio...

Reviews online (November 2005-January 2006).(Recommended readings)
June 1, 2006... 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...