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The Art Bulletin articles from September 1997
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The Art Bulletin archives from September 1997
"Heroes" and "whores": the politics of gender in Weimar Antiwar imagery. (Weimar antiwar artists' drawings and paintings of prostitutes and war veterans)
September 1, 1997... At the peak of a debate over the memory and meaning of World War I, the ten-year anniversary of war mobilization in 1924 became the crucial point of convergence for many of the social and political issues that had surfaced in antiwar imagery in...
The Musaeum of Alexandria and the formation of the 'Museum' in eighteenth-century France.
September 1, 1997... Museum histories routinely trace the origins of the modern museum back to 1793 in Revolutionary France, when the National Convention formally declared that the holdings in the Cabinet du Roi and the Cabinet d'Histoire Naturelie were no longer...
The dialectics of decay: rereading the Kantian subject. (interpretation of philosopher Immanuel Kant's essay 'Critique of Judgment')
September 1, 1997... The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor,
A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song.
You know then that it is not the reason That makes...
Plans and planning for S. Maria della Salute, Venice. (church designed by architect Baldassare Longhena in 1630)
September 1, 1997... Three of the most important churches of the Italian Baroque were all designed in the 1630s. They are S. Maria della Salute (Figs. 1, 2), Venice (1631), by Baldassare Longhena (15981682); SS. Martina and Luca, Rome (1634), by Pietro da Cortona...
Raphael's authorship in the 'Expulsion of Heliodorus.' (interpretation of court painter Raphael's mural)
September 1, 1997... The history of the essence of Western art corresponds to the change of the essence of truth. - Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art"(1)
Introduction: Toward a History of Artistic Intention
One of the intractable questions...
"One of the Marys...": an interdisciplinary analysis of Michelangelo's Florentine 'Pieta.' (sculpture by Michelangelo)
September 1, 1997... The mystery surrounding the Florentine Pieta [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED] is primarily related to the fact that Michelangelo, after working for eight years on this sculpture, decided to destroy it, and - according to Giorgio Vasari -...
Another look at the disappearing Christ: corporeal and spiritual vision in early medieval images.
September 1, 1997... The exceptional originality of tenth- and eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon art is justly renowned.(1) Perhaps the most extraordinary of all its many innovations is a new type of Ascension iconography that seems to have been invented about the...
Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy.
September 1, 1997... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 404 pp.; 417 color and b/w ills. $55.00
"While antiquity exists for us, we, for antiquity, do not. . . . This rather peculiar state of affairs makes our take on antiquity somewhat invalid." Joseph...
Joseph Ramee: International Architect of the Revolutionary Era.
September 1, 1997... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 366 pp., 19 color ills., 300 b/w. $100.00
Since the early 1980s, Paul Turner has been uncovering or, as he so aptly puts it, "reconstructing" (p. xviii) the career of Joseph Ramee, a significant...
The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture.
September 1, 1997... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 264 pp.; 7 color ills., 100 b/w. $65.00
John Davis has marked as his territory that place where the real - the empirical actuality of rock - meets the conceptual - the amorphous realm of belief -...
Oskar Kokoschka: Die Gemalde 1906-1929.
September 1, 1997... Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz, 1995. 228 pp.; 219 color ills., 36 b/w.
Adolf Loos, the great modernist architect and crucial first patron of the young Kokoschka, inscribed the portrait the artist had drawn of him in 1916 with the witty...
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation.
September 1, 1997... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 462 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $34.95
Visitors to a recent exhibition of the art of Mark Tansey were (to one observer) variously bemused, upset, entranced, and bewildered by the sole three-dimensional...
