The Art Bulletin articles from March 2002

The Art Bulletin archives from March 2002

Luxurious forms: Redefining a Mediterranean "international style," 1400-1200 B.C.E.
March 1, 2002... Scholars have postulated the existence of an international style for the arts of the eastern Mediterranean of the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B.C.E. because they exhibit shared formal features that cut across cultural and geopolitical...

Canonizing Kannon: The ninth-century Esoteric Buddhist altar at Kanshinji.
March 1, 2002... The honzon, or primary icon, (1) of the Japanese Buddhist temple Kanshinji is a statue of the bodhisattva Nyoirin Kannon (Figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 12). (2) The ninth-century figure takes central position on the altar of the temple's main hail (Kondo)...

The Greek Manner and a Christian Canon: Francois Duquesnoy's Saint Susanna.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... In his 1672 Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Giovan Pietro Bellori wrote that in the statue of Saint Susanna in S. Maria di Loreto, Rome (Fig. 1), the Flemish sculptor Francois Duquesnoy (1597-1643) "had left to modern...

William Holman Hunt's The Scapegoat: Rite of forgiveness/transference of blame.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... By his own admission, the eminent Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt suffered from an "Oriental mania," and his justification for his several trips to the Holy Land fit the paradigm of the Orientalist explorer-adventurer-author...

Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the modern city of ancient Rome.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now [Jetztzeit]. Thus, to Robespierre ancient Rome was a past charged with the time of the now which he blasted out of the...

Planning memory: Living memorials in the United States during World War II.
March 1, 2002... One month after atomic bombs annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Philip Johnson proposed a memorial for World War II. In "War Memorials: What Aesthetic Price Glory?" Johnson critically reviewed the range of possibilities, only to settle on a...

Fascism, Modernism, and Modernity.
March 1, 2002... The terms fascism and modern art used to seem comfortingly opposed to each other, but the last two decades of scholarship in history, art history, and literature have radically revised that postwar complacency. An understanding of the profound...

Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... MARVIN TRACHTENBERG Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 378 pp.; 200 ills. $69.95 Florence is essentially a medieval, and specifically a trecento,...

Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... PAUL A. HILLS Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 240 pp.; 160 color ills., 40 b/w. $55.00 In an essay written fifty years ago on the relationship between...

Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games & Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and Enterprise. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... EDWARD SNOW Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games New York: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. 248 pp.; 1 color ill., 150 b/w ills. $40 ETHAN MATT KAVALER Pieter Bruegel: Parables of Order and...

Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... JAMES J. SHEEHAN Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 272 pp.; 34 b/w ills. $35 The public museum of art as cultural institution, familiar...

Their Common Sense & Le sens du beau. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... MOLLY NESBIT Their Common Sense London: Black Dog, 2000. 376 pp.; 151 b/w ills. $34.95 LUC FERRY Le sens du beau Paris: Livre de Poche, 2001. 352 pp.; 88 color ills., 22 b/w. [epsilon]9.41 The meanders of chance are...

What Painting Is & The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing & Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing & On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them & How to Use Your Eyes. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... JAMES ELKINS What Painting Is New York: Routledge, 1998. 246 pp.; 25 color and b/w ills. $31.49 The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997. 272 pp.; 87 b/w ills. $14.00 paper Our...