The Art Bulletin articles from March 2004

The Art Bulletin archives from March 2004

Water sprites and ancestor spirits: reading the architecture of Jinci.
March 1, 2004... Jinci, or the Memorial Shrine of Jin, perhaps the most unconventional shrine complex in China, occupies a verdant site near the remains of ancient Jinyang, a capital city of the Zhou dynasty (ca. 1100-221 B.C.E.) Jin State, eleven miles...

Judas and the Franciscans: perfidy pictured in Lorenzetti's Passion cycle at Assisi.(Pietro Lorenzetti, Italy)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... In the south transept of the lower church of S. Francesco, Assisi, in the early fourteenth century, Pietro Lorenzetti painted a powerful vision of death. (1) Alone, beneath an arch, a man hangs by the neck from a wooden beam. His straggling...

From Ovid's Cecrops to Rubens's City of God in The Finding of Erichthonius.
March 1, 2004... ... The poet says, Dear City of Cecrops; and wilt not thou say, Dear City of Zeus?--Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.23 (1) The transitory character of all things as an aspect of a preordained natural course is a common them in Peter...

Signs of identity in Lady with a Fan by Diego Velazquez: costume and likeness reconsidered.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... Renowned as a great portraitist in the seventeenth century, the Spaniard Diego Velazquez stands with Rembrandt as an artist whose works can be viewed as wordless essays on the human condition. In addition to serving as records of likeness, most...

L'affaire Greuze and the sublime of history painting.(Jean-Baptiste Greuze, France)(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... In the Salon of 1765 the painting that caused the greatest stir was Jean-Honore Fragonard's highly praised morceau d'agrement (acceptance piece), Coresus and Callirhoe (Fig. 1). (1) This large-scale machine (canvas) depicts the climax of the...

Staging language: Milca Mayerova and the Czech book Alphabet.(Czech Republic)(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2004... After great catastrophes, in some sense one always starts over from the alphabet.--Frantisek X. Salda, "On the Newest Czech Poetry" (1928) (1) The 1926 book Alphabet (Abeceda) is a landmark achievement in European modernism...

Claes Oldenburg's The Street and urban renewal in Greenwich Village, 1960.
March 1, 2004... Pedestrians walking down Thompson Street off Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park in the winter of 1960 were beckoned, by means of a messily painted sign and mural, into the basement of the Judson Church House (Fig. 1). The building...

GLORIA FERRARI Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... GLORIA FERRARI Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 352 pp.; 147 b/w ills. $60.00 RICHARD T. NEER Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of...

CYNTHIA HAHN Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... CYNTHIA HAHN Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 442 pp.; 8 color ills., 149 b/w. $60.00 JEFFREY F....

DAVID FREEDBERG The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... DAVID FREEDBERG The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 525 pp.; 83 color ills., 89 b/w. $50.00 Once some fathers came to see...

MICHAEL FRIED Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... MICHAEL FRIED Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin London: Yale University Press, 2002. 320 pp., 70 color ills., 100 b/w. $55.00 When I was a child, the pond where I spent many summers was alive with...

Roger Benjamin Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... ROGER BENJAMIN Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 352 pp.; 16 color ills., 123 b/w. $49.95 Scholars of Western imagery of lands and peoples...

Books received: (August-November 2003).
March 1, 2004... ADAMS, PARVEEN, ED. Art: Sublimation or Symptom. New York: Other Press, 2003. 180 pp. Cloth $39.95 (1590510305) ADAMSON, GLENN, ED. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, in...

Reviews online: (August-November 2003).
March 1, 2004... caa.reviews, published by the College Art Association, is an online journal devoted to the peer review of new books, exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art and art history. To access a review, type in the URL...