The Art Bulletin articles from March 1997

The Art Bulletin archives from March 1997

Whose money? Whose power? Whose art history?(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... In a clumsy conclusion to an otherwise tightly argued case, James Beck recently imputed dishonesty of motive to the National Gallery, London, for attributing its Entombment to Michelangelo.(1) He implied that institutional vanity and commercial...

Next year's models. (evolving theory on art)(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... While I hope to know something of art, I cannot claim to be familiar with power or money. It's not for a lack of effort. I would love to master the intricate web of relationships that channels money across our societies and often defines power in...

Cultural value and the aesthetics of publishing.(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... The earlier culture will become a heap of rubble and finally a heap of ashes, but spirits will hover over the ashes. - Wittgenstein(1) This aphorism, written in the 1930s, seems in the 1990s to be a prophetic vision of destruction. Just as...

Money, power, and pictures of art.(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... There are many ways in which money impacts on publishing decisions in the world of art, particularly as they are made in university presses. These range from the ubiquitous bottomline considerations of any self-sustaining enterprise to the...

Pricing or prizing potential in the 1990s. (valuation of art works)(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... Knowledge has no price but the acquisition of knowledge, as Brecht's Galileo vividly demonstrates, takes place in the marketplace. Not only does art have a price but in some respects, at least in the late twentieth century, it is also a cypher...

Money, power, contemporary art.(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... As an artist I know remarked recently to a younger colleague, the art market is not the place to determine aesthetic worth. (Both these women, with significant international reputations, are doing very well in the market; no sour grapes here.) It...

Multiple contextualizations. (mission of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)(Money, Power, and the History of Art)
March 1, 1997... As a historian who had concentrated on the history of philosophy and the theory of history, I was more than a little surprised when in 1994 I received an invitation to be a resident scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art...

The map of art history.
March 1, 1997... From the nineteenth century, History was to deploy, in a temporal series, the analogies that connect distinct organic structures to one another. . . . History gives place to analogical organic structures. . . . This event, probably because we are...

From symbol to allegory: Aby Warburg's theory of art.
March 1, 1997... Recent years have seen a remarkable reawakening of critical interest among Anglophone art historians in the German roots of their discipline. In particular, Michael Podro's book The Critical Historians of Art has seemingly acted as a catalyst for...

Unmasking Pablo's Gertrude: queer desire and the subject of portraiture. (painter Pablo Picasso's work 'Portrait of Gertrude Stein')
March 1, 1997... Spring was coming and the sittings were coming to an end. All of a sudden one day Picasso painted out the whole head. I can't see you any longer when I look, he said irritably. And so the picture was left like that.(1) Gertrude Stein's...

Contesting femininity: Vuillard's family pictures. (painter Edouard Vuillard)
March 1, 1997... Edouard Vuillard dwelled in a mundus muliebris, we have been told, a "saturated feminine world."(1) It has been assumed that the atmosphere of that world is distilled in Vuillard's domestic interiors filled with women - scenes painted with...

Alexander Cozen's 'New Method': the blot and general nature. (painter)
March 1, 1997... Born in 1717 to English parents in Peter the Great's Russia, Alexander Cozens was educated from the age of ten in London, where he remained until a brief return to Russia in the late 1730s or early 1740s.(1) In 1746 he was among the first English...

Roman triumphal painting: its function, development, and reception.
March 1, 1997... In 211 B.C. the great general M. Claudius Marcellus returned to Rome after his decisive defeat of Syracuse. With him came a vast booty of Hellenistic artifacts. Remaining outside the sacred precincts of Rome, he supplicated the Senate for the...

Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition.
March 1, 1997... Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 375 pp.; 4 color ills., 430 b/w. $50.00 The Doryphoros of Polykleitos and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite were two of the most famous statues of classical antiquity and remain among the most...

Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece: A Preliminary Study.
March 1, 1997... Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. 184 pp.; 19 b/w ills. $39.95 The Doryphoros of Polykleitos and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite were two of the most famous statues of classical antiquity and remain among the most influential in...

The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors: A Historical Review of the Female Nude in Greek Art.
March 1, 1997... Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 194 pp., 39 b/w ills. $47.50 The Doryphoros of Polykleitos and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite were two of the most famous statues of classical antiquity and remain among the most influential in the...

La Galleria delle Carte geografiche in Vaticano/The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican.
March 1, 1997... 3 vols. Modena Italy: Franco Casimo Panini, 1994. Vol. 1: 595 pp.; 790 color ills. Vol. 2: 534 pp.; 120 b/w ills. Vols. 3: 40 loose-leaf maps. L 1,000,000 Many a scholar, impatient to see the newly restored Sistine Chapel, races through the...

Die Galleria delle Carte Geografiche im Vatikan: Eine ikonologische Betrachtung des Gewolbeprogramms.
March 1, 1997... Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 1993. 202 pp.; 47 b/w ills. DM 44.80 Many a scholar, impatient to see the newly restored Sistine Chapel, races through the subject of these two books, the Gallery of Geographical Maps in the Vatican...

Painting and the Journal of Eugene Delacroix.
March 1, 1997... Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. 312 pp.; 54 b/w ills. $39.50 These two eloquent studies are lucid theoretical investigations of French art circa the mid-19th century, centering on the later production of two artists,...

The Plight of Emulation: Ernest Meissonier and French Salon Painting.
March 1, 1997... Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. 264 pp.; 4 color ills., 73 b/w. $45.00 These two eloquent studies are lucid theoretical investigations of French art circa the mid-19th century, centering on the later production of two...

Art since 1940: Strategies of Being.
March 1, 1997... New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 496 pp.; 277 color ills.; 345 b/w. $60.00 By 1964, when historian H. Stuart Hughes wrote an essay rifled "Is Contemporary History Real History?. . . . contemporary" history had become a specialization. Hughes...

Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline.
March 1, 1997... New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996. 328 pp.; 315 color ills.; 21 b/w. $75.00; $42.95 paper By 1964, when historian H. Stuart Hughes wrote an essay rifled "Is Contemporary History Real History?. . . . contemporary" history had become...

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings.
March 1, 1997... Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 1,032 pp.; 111 b/w ills. $60.00; $29.95 paper By 1964, when historian H. Stuart Hughes wrote an essay rifled "Is Contemporary History Real History?. . . . contemporary" history had become a...