The Art Bulletin articles from March 2003

The Art Bulletin archives from March 2003

Narrating animals on the screen of the world.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2003... In many academic endeavors, textual evidence is decidedly and somewhat understandably privileged. Yet in historical studies that yield little or no extant textual material, we must turn to visual evidence. The careful "reading" of details can...

Noguchi, sculptural abstraction, and the politics of Japanese American internment.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2003... In 1946, a little more than a year after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi was selected to participate in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art called Fourteen...

Finding Lost Antioch: exhibition, catalogue, programs. (Exhibition Review).(Review)
March 1, 2003... Antioch: The Lost Ancient City Worcester Art Museum, October 7, 2000--February 4, 2001, the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 18--June 3, 2001, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, September 16--December 30, 2001. Organized by Christine Kondoleon...

Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism & Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 & Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... MARIA GEORGOPOULOU Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 383 pp.; 136 b/w ills, $80.00 DEBORAH HOWARD Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on...

Michelangelo and the Reform of Art & Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... ALEXANDER NAGEL Michelangelo and the Reform of Art Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 320 pp.; 105 b/w ills. $80.00 DAVID FRANKLIN Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001....

Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 & Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art & Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters, and Photographers in Nineteenth-Century France. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... CAROL ARMSTRONG Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. 572 pp.; 143 ills. $54.95 ANN BERMINGHAM Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and...

Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Theodore Rousseau. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... GREG M. THOMAS Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Theodore Rousseau Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 285 pp.; 91 b/w ills. $62.50 When a painter takes his easel, his paints, and his...

Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... DEBORA SILVERMAN Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000. 576 pp., 147 color ills., 59 b/w. $60.00 Although many writers on the life of Vincent van Gogh have commented on his...

The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... WANDA M. CORN The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 447 pp.; 138 color ills., 183 b/w. $65.00 In 1876, Walt Whitman sent a special invitation to the...

Books received. (A-Z).
March 1, 2003... September-October 2002 ALBERRO, ALEXANDER. Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 288 pp.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0262011964). ANDERSON, DUANE. When Rain Gods Reigned From Curios to Art at...

Reviews online.
March 1, 2003... (September-October 2002) CAA.Reviews, published online by the college Art Association, posts reviews of books, catalogues, and exhibitions in the arts on an ongoing basis. To access a review, type http://www.caareviews.org/reviews,...