The Art Bulletin articles from March 1998

The Art Bulletin archives from March 1998

Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art.(Review)
March 1, 1998... New York: Continuum, 1996, 442 pp.; 101 b/w ills. $44.50 As in other fields in art history, scholars concerned with the history of late medieval art have turned their attention in recent years to the role of women in the production and...

Boccaccio's 'Des cleres et nobles femmes': Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript.(Review)
March 1, 1998... New York: College Art Association, 1996. Distr. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 139 pp.; 4 color ills., 106 b/w. $45.00 As in other fields in art history, scholars concerned with the history of late medieval art have turned their...

Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 318 pp.; 12 color ills., 118 b/w. $55.00 As in other fields in art history, scholars concerned with the history of late medieval art have turned their attention in recent years to the role of...

Women, Art and Spirituality: The Poor Clares of Early Modern Italy.(Review)
March 1, 1998... New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 272 pp., 100 b/w ills., 14 diagrams, plans, maps. $70.00 As in other fields in art history, scholars concerned with the history of late medieval art have turned their attention in recent years to...

Pieter Bruegel: Die Zeichnungen.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Tournhout: Brepols, 1996. 255pp.; 161 b/w ills. BFr 2,750 Hans Mielke's catalogue raisonne of the drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder presents the discipline with a radically new artistic personality. Sheer numbers, although to some degree...

Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, ca. 1535-1600.(Review)
March 1, 1998... trans. Andrew P. McCormick Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 257 pp.; 12 color ills., 147 b/w. $95.00 Wondering about the subtitle of Charles E. Cohen's book, I asked two distinguished linguists at Rutgers, Jane Grimshaw and...

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language, 2 vols.(Review)
March 1, 1998... 2 vols. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 902 pp.; 32 color ills., 805 b/w. $275.00 Wondering about the subtitle of Charles E. Cohen's book, I asked two distinguished linguists at Rutgers, Jane Grimshaw and Alan...

The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy.(Review)
March 1, 1998... Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 413 pp.; 39 b/w ills. $39.95 Ronald Paulson's The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange. Aesthetics and Heterodoxy situates the origins of aesthetics in 18th-century England, around...

Edmund Burke: A Life in Caricature.(Review)
March 1, 1998... New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, 240 pp.; 50 color ills., 150 b/w. $45.00 Ronald Paulson's The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange. Aesthetics and Heterodoxy situates the origins of aesthetics in 18th-century England, around...

Honore Daumier.(Review)
March 1, 1998... New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996, 244 pp.; 60 color ills., 130 b/w. $55.00. Ronald Paulson's The Beautiful, Novel, and Strange. Aesthetics and Heterodoxy situates the origins of aesthetics in 18th-century England, around...

God's compass and 'Vana Curiositas': scientific study in the Old French 'Bible Moralisee.'.
March 1, 1998... For historians of medieval science, a painted depiction of the creative God striding forth, precisely condescending, compass in hand, to create the world, has become a visual cliche, vaguely appropriated from its original manuscript context...

Splendor and peril: the cathedral of Paris, 1290-1350.
March 1, 1998... Each face, each stone of this venerable monument is not only a page of the history of the country, but also of the history of knowledge and art.... Time is the architect, the people are the builder. - Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris(1) ...

Eastman Johnson's 'Negro Life at the South' and urban slavery in Washington, D.C.
March 1, 1998... In October 1938, as the culmination of a year-long campaign to bring reproductions of the world's finest paintings to a popular audience, Life magazine ran an elaborate, twelve-page feature under the optimistic headline, "American Art Comes of...

Antipastoralism in early Winslow Homer.
March 1, 1998... There is some art in stacking the hay well. - Robert Ramble's Scenes in the Country (Boston: Joseph H. and C. S. Francis, 1847), 38. About 1875 Winslow Homer brought nearly a decade of work in the pastoral mode to a close with a series of...

Creating 'Desastres': Andrieu's photographs of urban ruins in the Paris of 1871.
March 1, 1998... War has its conventions; so, too, does war imagery. The photographs made by a dozen or so French photographers during and, mostly, after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the Paris Commune of 1871 focus on the architectural ruins in Paris...

The self pictured: Manet, the mirror, and the occupation of realist painting.
March 1, 1998... In 1878, at the age of forty-six, Edouard Manet painted a picture of himself painting a picture [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. This Self-Portrait with a Palette is one of only two formal self-portraits that Manet conceived in his...