The Art Bulletin articles from June 2008

The Art Bulletin archives from June 2008

Imperial frontiers: building sacred space in sixteenth-century south India.
June 1, 2008... Studies of sixteenth-century South Asian art are dominated by the achievements of the Mughal Empire in north India. Later Hindu architecture, that is, after the twelfth century, has been neglected until comparatively recently, under the...

Moors and the bullfight: history and national identity in Goya's Tauromaquia.(Francisco Goya)(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... In 1815--in his seventieth year--Francisco Goya began etching the plates for a series of prints depicting the bullfight. The Tauromaquia, as this set of thirty-three aquatint etchings would come to be known by the 1840s, was the third of five...

Contested terrain: Gustave Courbet's hunting scenes.(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... During his lifelong quest to develop a Realist aesthetic, Gustave Courbet elaborated on the Romantic legacy that emphasized artistic subjectivity and natural vision. With the goal of interpreting the manners and ideas of his time, he produced...

Heroic indolence: realism and the politics of time in Raffaelli's absinthe drinkers.(Jean-Francois Raffaelli)(Critical essay)
June 1, 2008... At the sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881, Jean-Francois Raffaelli showed the painting now known as The Absinthe Drinkers for the first time (Fig. 1). The large canvas depicting two ragged men drinking outside a bar in the outskirts of...

The ethics of perception: Josef Albers in the United States.
June 1, 2008... Experimentation means learning by experience.... --Josef Albers, September 1941 (1) A most poignant document of Black Mountain College's early years is the snapshot of Josef and Anni Albers's arrival, published in North Carolina's...

The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 B.C.--A.D. 300.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 B.C.-A.D. BOO Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 416 pp.; 160 b/w ills. $150.00 Respectable Roman merchants as Greek heroes, virtuous Roman matrons as Veneres flirtatiously flaunting their...

Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... HENRY MAGUIRE AND EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 223 pp.; 8 color ills., 150 b/w. $49.50 For decades, scholars of Byzantium have been...

The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... The Complete Taj Mahal and the Riverfront Gardens of Agra Drawings, Richard Andre Barraud London: Thames and Hudson, 2006. 288 pp.; 224 color ills., 154 b/w. $75.00 Upon her grave--may it be illumined till the Resurrection! The King...

Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 48 colorills., 82 b/w. $55.00 A few years after the bicentenaire of Napoleon's...

The Making of English Photography: Allegories.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Steve Edwards: The Making of English Photography: Allegories University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 368 pp.; 114 b/w illus. $85.00 Karl Marx makes his appearance in the first paragraph of Steve Edwards's book The...

Andrew Hemingway, Ed.: Marxism and the History of Art: from William Morris to the New Left.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Andrew Hemingway, Ed.: Marxism and the History of Art: from William Morris to the New Left London: Pluto Press, 2006. 276 pp.; 16 b/w ills. $45.00 Considerable attention is currently being given in the United States to Naomi Klein's...

Dissertations in progress by subject matter.(U.S. and Canadian Dissertations, 2007)(Bibliography)
June 1, 2008... African Art (sub-Saharan) BECKER, NATASHA, "Local vs. Global: The Johannesburg Biennales and the Production of Contemporary Art in a Post-Apartheid South Africa" (SUNY Binghamton, A. D'Souza) BRIDGES, NICHOLE, "Contact, Commentary, and...

Recent Books in the Arts: (January--March 2008).(Bibliography)
June 1, 2008... ADAMSON, WALTER L. Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 448 pp. Cloth $45.00 (9780520252707) ALPERS, SVETLANA. The Vexations of Art: Valazquez and...

Reviews online: (January-March 2008).(book reviews on www.caareviews.org )
June 1, 2008... 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...