The Art Bulletin articles from March 1995

The Art Bulletin archives from March 1995

The problematics of collecting and display, part 1.
March 1, 1995... Grounded in the idealist thinking of the Aesthetic movement, which from the 1870s to the early 1890s championed the beauty of art and its power to elevate the spirit and serve as an antidote to the ugliness of industrialized manufacture, Gilman's...

Selling, seduction, and soliciting the eye: Manet's 'Bar at the Folies-Bergere.'
March 1, 1995... When I go out, . . . I fill my pockets with them and give them to the local children who come begging. They'd probably prefer money, but I prefer to give them a share in something I enjoy. The pleasures of this world! Well, they're made of things...

Re-dressing classical statuary, the eighteenth-century 'hand-in-waistcoat' portrait.
March 1, 1995... A portrait type that appeared with relentless frequency in England in the eighteenth century is the familiar image of a gentleman poised with one hand inside his partially unbuttoned waistcoat. Conventional interpretations of this very common...

Metaphorical painting: Michelangelo, Dante, and the 'Last Judgment.'
March 1, 1995... 60. It is represented in Giovanni's pulpit in the Duomo of Pisa. The legends are summarized in M. R. James, ed., The Apocryphal New Testament, Oxford, 1924, repr. 1975, 563. 61. If this is correct, the hill might refer specifically to the...

Redating the Arca Santa of Oviedo.
March 1, 1995... When Pelayo became bishop of Oviedo in 1101, it must have seemed that the mountains which had sheltered the city from Moslem incursions now isolated her from the rest of Reconquest Spain. Once the capital of Asturias, spearhead of Christian...

Exodus and Easter vigil in the Ashburnham Pentateuch.
March 1, 1995... The Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334),(1) convincingly dated to the late sixth century,(2) occupies a pivotal place between Late antique and Carolingian illuminated manuscripts. Originally, there were sixty-nine...

Engraved calligraphy in China: recension and reception.
March 1, 1995... Since the Later Han dynasty (25-220), ink-written calligraphy has been seen as an expression of the writer's personality.(1) As a result of this equation of personality and style, traditional Chinese criticism has focused on the biography of the...

Likeness of no one: (re)presenting the first emperor's army. (tomb sculptures form the Qin dynasty)
March 1, 1995... 35. E. H. Gombrich, "Meditations on a Hobby Horse or the Roots of Artistic Form," in Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art, London, 1963, 3. 36. Anthropomorphic figurines were unearthed from at least six tombs of...

Outcasts: Signs of Otherness in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages.
March 1, 1995... In the hands of the connoisseur of the "ugly Jew," the amateur of the "bestial black face," and the authority on the "effeminate ass," these two red-bound volumes spell danger. The seven hundred illustrations in the plates volume might be...

Refiguring the Real: Picture and Modernity in Word and Image, 1400-1700.
March 1, 1995... If anything might be said to characterize art history in the nineties it is the acceptance of interdisciplinarity as an inevitable fact of life. Recognition of the value of other disciplines is, of course, not new to art history; substantive...

Ricerca del Rinascimento, Principi, citta, architetti.
March 1, 1995... Manfredo Tafuri's place in the history of architecture of our times is unique. Freethinking, courageous, and ambitious, he nevertheless made use of documents, existing literature from the recent and distant past, and his own creative energies in...

The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice.
March 1, 1995... For Jacob Burckhardt, the great tradition of modern European easel painting originated in the Italian Renaissance altarpiece. In its day, the altarpiece was "the most progressive genre in Italian painting," marked by the most advanced...

Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape.
March 1, 1995... Regensburg, which lies about forty miles southeast of Nuremburg, thrived more gloriously and richly in the Middle Ages than during the Renaissance. Its cathedral, begun in the mid-13th century, was under construction until 1525. The city is...

Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580-1620.
March 1, 1995... The era of the large exhibition as an eye-opener to an exciting, hitherto unexplored domain of art seems to have ended in Holland. The recent shows of Vincent van Gogh (1990) and Rembrandt (1991-92) attracted huge crowds that included the most...

Etienne-Jules Marey: A Passion for the Trace.
March 1, 1995... Standards. Marey, a physiologist, devoted his life to them. He would contribute to many new fields of inquiry like epidemiology, aerodynamics, professional sport, industrial engineering, sound recording, photography, and film, but he was not...