The Art Bulletin articles from March 2008

The Art Bulletin archives from March 2008

Constructing the guru: ritual authority and architectural space in medieval India.
March 1, 2008... For nearly three millennia the guru has remained at the nexus of Indic society as a figure revered for his innate wisdom, for his vast knowledge of spiritual texts and practices, and for his status as a living receptacle for divinity. Derived...

Meaningful mingling: classicizing imagery and Islamicizing script in a Byzantine bowl.
March 1, 2008... Among the sacred relics, precious liturgical implements, and luxurious curios assembled in the treasury of the church of S. Marco, Venice, sits a well-known middle Byzantine vessel of purple-red glass embellished with bright polychrome enamel...

The republic at work: S. Marco's reliefs of the Venetian trades.
March 1, 2008... Many Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals throughout Italy and France featured sculptural cycles on their portals depicting the Labors of the Months. (1) A traditional subject showing a solitary, usually male, figure tending the fields,...

Attributing influence: the problem of female patronage in fifteenth-century Florence.
March 1, 2008... Among the Florentine Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale's broad holdings of fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts is a small, striking codex catalogued as BNCF, Magliabechiano VII, 49. Its sole text is a Lombard Vita di San Giovanni Battista...

Regionalist radio: Thomas Hart Benton on Art for Your Sake.(Cover story)
March 1, 2008... A remarkably high percentage of work by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton depicts musical performance, instruments, singing, and clapping. An even larger group takes as its subject the production of sound in nonmusical contexts, by way of...

Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... MARIAN H. FELDMAN Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 278 pp.; 18 color ills., 77 b/w. $60.00 Marian Feldman's copiously...

Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... MEYER SCHAPIRO Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Ed. and intro. Linda Seidel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 277 pp.; 70 b/w ills. $40.00 A decade after his death, Meyer Schapiro...

The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... ERNST J. GRUBE AND JEREMY JOHNS The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina Genoa: Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art; New York: East-West Foundation, 2005. 518 pp.; 200 color ills., 762 b/w. $195.00 The Cappella...

Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School.(Book review)
March 1, 2008... REBECCA ZURIER Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 418 pp.; 12 color ills., 149 b/w. $49.95 Picturing the City makes a significant contribution to our...

Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses.(Critical essay)
March 1, 2008... CAROLINE A. JONES Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 534 pp.; 23 color ills., 126 b/w. $45.00 One of the principal themes explored in...

Recent books in the arts (July-September 2007).
March 1, 2008... ABBOTT, BRETT, ED. Edward Weston's Book of Nudes. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Center for Creative Photography, 2007. 96 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780892369034) ADAMS, NICHOLAS....

Reviews online (July-September 2007).(caa.reviews by College Art Association)
March 1, 2008... caa.reviews, published online 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...