The Art Bulletin articles from March 2005

The Art Bulletin archives from March 2005

Vision, devotion, and difficulty in the psalter hours "of yolande of soissons".(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... As is so often the case with medieval manuscripts rich in visual imagery, one striking miniature has largely upstaged its fellows and come to serve as the recognizable "face" of the Psalter Hours so-called of Yolande of Soissons, (1) a...

Behind the sensationalism: images of a decaying corpse in Japanese Buddhist art.
March 1, 2005... One of the most provocative images in Japanese art is the kusozu, a graphic depiction of a corpse in the process of decay and decomposition. The kusozu, "painting of the nine stages of a decaying corpse" (hereafter, painting of the nine...

"Pictures (the most part bawdy)": the Anglo-Japanese painting trade in the early 1600s.(East India Company)
March 1, 2005... A most curious experiment was undertaken in the early seventeenth century by the English East India Company: it decided to deal in pictures through some of its Asian factories (or trading stations). The company, founded in 1600, was anxious to...

Pregnancy and pathology: picturing childbirth in eighteenth-century obstetric atlases.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... In the second half of the eighteenth century, two highly regarded obstetric atlases were published by the British men-midwives William Smellie and William Hunter. Filled with large-scale, vivid engravings of the dissected female body, Smellie's...

Communism in furs: a dream of prehistory in William Morris's John Ball.
March 1, 2005... A Dream of John Ball, a novel by William Morris, was first published as a serial in the pages of the newspaper Commonweal between November 13, 1886, and January 22, 1887. (1) Founded two years earlier by Morris and fellow disaffected members of...

Cezanne and Delacroix's posthumous reputation.
March 1, 2005... A photograph of 1894 shows Paul Cezanne in his Paris studio at work on a small canvas on the easel, The Apotheosis of Delacroix (Fig. 1). The title is based on Cezanne's own words in a letter of May 12, 1904, to Emile Bernard from...

Otto Wagner and the Steinhof psychiatric hospital: architecture as misunderstanding.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... A few weeks ago I was returning to Vienna by train from the west. A sculptor from Paris was sharing my compartment. As we approached the outskirts, he suddenly pointed to the view on his left and exclaimed in astonishment: "What is...

Mit Mythen Leben: Die Bilderwelt der romischen Sarkophage.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... PAUL ZANKER AND BJORN CHRISTIAN EWALD Mit Mythen Leben: Die Bilderwelt der romischen Sarkophage Munich: Hirmer, 2004. 389 pp.; 78 color ills., 227 b/w. [euro]75.00 In the late nineteenth century, when Roman art was first being...

Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... NIGEL LLEWELLYN Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 471 pp., 233 b/w ills. $140.00 Given the large number of surviving sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tombs in England, the...

Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back.(Ways of the River: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta)(See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... PAMELA MCCLUSKY WITH ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press, 2002. 302 pp.; 182 color ills., 50 b/w. $26.56 MARTHA G....

Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... BRANDEN JOSEPH Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, 418 pp.; 103 b/w ills. $34.95 Among the American artists who came to prominence in the wake of, and offering an alternative...

Books received (September-October 2004).(Bibliography)
March 1, 2005... APEL, DORA. Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 304 pp.; 14 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (0813534593) APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME. The Cubist Painters. Translated and...

Reviews online (August-December 2004).(Bibliography)
March 1, 2005... ASIAN ART MUSEUM OF SAN FRANCISCO. Montien Boonma: Temple of the Mind. Exh. review. Reviewed by Katharine P. Burnett. BRANN, NOEL L. The Debate over the Origins of Genius during the Italian Renaissance: The Theories of Supernatural Frenzy...