The Art Bulletin articles from June 2007

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2007

Giotto's Circumspection.(Giotto di Bondone)
June 1, 2007... Since its rediscovery in the nineteenth century, the fresco cycle in the Arena Chapel in Padua (S. Maria della Carita de Arena) has risen to prominence as the foremost body of work by Giotto di Bondone (1266/7-1337). Yet we know more about its...

Localizing sacredness, difference, and Yachacuscamcani in a colonial Andean painting.
June 1, 2007... Nuestra Senora de Montserrat stands on a windswept pampa in the south-central Andes. This early colonial church is built on the remains of an imperial Inca royal estate in the town of Chinchero, Peru (Fig. 1). Its plain facade, as well as the...

Realist quandaries: posing professional and proprietary models in the 1860s.
June 1, 2007... In the 1850s and 1860s, as Realism became a contested term among artists and critics, the traditional form of the artist-model transaction, in which the artist directed a professional model to assume a pose that embodied his idea, became...

Picturing listening in the late nineteenth century.
June 1, 2007... An image can serve to introduce this article: a photograph captioned "Bernard Berenson, 1959, after listening to Yehudi Menuhin" (Fig. 1). Consider the three pieces of information that the caption provides, so neatly separated by commas. All...

Mural gambits: Mexican muralism in the United States and the "portable" fresco.
June 1, 2007... The nationalistic imagery of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros displayed on the public walls of Mexico, a nation forging a new cultural identity in the wake of a long civil war (1910-20), captured the imagination of...

Envisioning abstraction: the simultaneity of Robert Delaunay's First Disk.
June 1, 2007... Of all of the movements lucky enough to have been caught in the tangles of Alfred Barr's spider-web chart of modern art (Fig. 1), only one, Orphism--Guillaume Apollinaire's misbegotten term and attempt to unite the post-Cubist abstraction of...

Hard hats and Art Strikes: Robert Morris in 1970.
June 1, 2007... For his 1970 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Morris: Recent Works, Robert Morris created process pieces--"spills" of concrete, timber, and steel--which filled the entire third floor of the museum (Fig. 1). These...

The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality.(Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Works of Fausto and Felice Niccolini)(Domus: Wall Painting in the Roman House)(The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples)(Book review)
June 1, 2007... KATHERINE M. D. DUNBABIN The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 308 pp.; 16 color ills., 120 b/w. $85.00 ROBERTO CASSANELLI, PIER LUIGI CIAPPARELLI, ENRICO COLLE, AND MASSIMILIANO...

The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... CHARLES B. MCCLENDON The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 280 pp., 35 color ills., 175 b/w. $65.00 In the first six centuries after the conversion of the...

Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... BISSERA V. PENTCHEVA Icons and Power: The Mother of God in Byzantium University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 320 pp.; 20 color ills., 100 b/w. $60.00 Icons of the Virgin Mary are perhaps the images that...

Islamic Calligraphy.(Book review)
June 1, 2007... SHEILA S. BLAIR Islamic Calligraphy Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 718 pp.; 178 color and b/w ills. $150.00 This most recent book written by Sheila Blair represents a scholarly synthesis long awaited by specialists....

U.S. and Canadian Dissertations, 2006.(List)
June 1, 2007... Dissertations in Progress by Subject Matter African Art (sub-Saharan) BORTOLOT, ALEXANDER, "Appearance versus Reality: The Representational Turn in 20th Century Makonde Masks and Performance" (Columbia, N. Kampen) BRIDGES,...

Books received (September-December 2006).
June 1, 2007... ABRAMS, JANET, AND PETER HALL, EDS. Else/where: Mapping. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006. 320 pp.; many color ills. Paper $49.95 (0972969624) ADES, DAWN, ED. The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology. Chicago:...

Reviews online (November-December 2006).(College Art Association)
June 1, 2007... caa.reviews, published online 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...