The Art Bulletin articles from September 1996

The Art Bulletin archives from September 1996

Writing (and) the history of art.
September 1, 1996... Art-historical writing is for the most part clotted with jargon and larded with cliche, impenetrable in its density, analytic and contentious to a fault, and, worst of all, utterly predictable. Too often lugubrious, the industrialized prose of...

Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850.
September 1, 1996... The Chinese art-historical canon has had a checkered life in this country. The field has been through dramatic shifts in the throes of coming into being. Early art historians, for example, slighted literati painting. For Ernest Fenollosa,...

Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration.
September 1, 1996... The Life of Fra Angelico provoked Giorgio Vasari to make one of his most pointed interventions in the Counter-Reformation debate over the religious and aesthetic vocations of art: "Whenever [works of religious art] are produced by men of...

Fra Angelico at San Marco.
September 1, 1996... The Life of Fra Angelico provoked Giorgio Vasari to make one of his most pointed interventions in the Counter-Reformation debate over the religious and aesthetic vocations of art: "Whenever [works of religious art] are produced by men of...

Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument: Sculpture as Theatre.
September 1, 1996... It has often been observed, by Barbara Stafford and others,(1) that the study of 18th-century visual culture has long been neglected by most art historians, especially by those in this country. Relatively few American colleges and universities...

Sir Richard Westmacott, Sculptor.
September 1, 1996... It has often been observed, by Barbara Stafford and others,(1) that the study of 18th-century visual culture has long been neglected by most art historians, especially by those in this country. Relatively few American colleges and universities...

The Woman of Ideas in French Art: 1830-1848.
September 1, 1996... Taken together, the books under review offer an occasion to map the overlapping conceptual fields of "women's studies," "gender studies," and "men's studies" as they relate to art history in general, and to 19th-century European painting in...

Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists.
September 1, 1996... Taken together, the books under review offer an occasion to map the overlapping conceptual fields of "women's studies," "gender studies," and "men's studies" as they relate to art history in general, and to 19th-century European painting in...

Masculinities in Victorian Painting.
September 1, 1996... Taken together, the books under review offer an occasion to map the overlapping conceptual fields of "women's studies," "gender studies," and "men's studies" as they relate to art history in general, and to 19th-century European painting in...