The Art Bulletin articles from September 2001

The Art Bulletin archives from September 2001

Monsters, corporeal Deformities, and phantasms in the Cloister of St-Michel-de-Cuxa.
September 1, 2001... Saint Bernard's Cloister In his celebrated Apologia of 1125, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux questions the purpose of the most enigmatic genre of Romanesque art: the monstrous and ostensibly profane images that intrude upon the garden-paradise...

Revisiting the Eastern Fence: Tao Qian's chrysanthemums.
September 1, 2001... The poet and essayist Yuan Mei (1716-1798) was in his midsixties when Luo Ping (1733-1799) painted his portrait, and his aging face was marked by strong, distinctive features: a wedge-shaped beard, full, drooping mustache, flabby jowls, a tuft...

Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and the subversive utopia of the opera-ballet.
September 1, 2001... Antoine Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera (Fig. 1) served as his reception piece at the Academie Royale de Peinture, to which he had been accepted as a candidate in 1712. On its acceptance in 1717, the records of the Academie Royale show the...

Eakins and Icons.(Thomas Eakins)
September 1, 2001... Thomas Eakins first came to public attention in the mid-1870s as a painter of water-sport subjects. In these early oils and watercolors, bird hunters quietly pole their boats through marshes or set out from shore under sail, and oarsmen slice...

Aworan: Representing the self and its Metaphysical other in Yoruba Art.
September 1, 2001... Among the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, the word aworan commonly refers to any two- or three-dimensional representation, ranging from the naturalistic to the stylized (Figs. 1, 2). A contraction of (that which), wo (to look at),...

Andy Warhol's Red Beard.(influence of Ben Shahn and Shirley Temple on Warhol)
September 1, 2001... The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.--Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp," 1964 (1) Sometime in late 1948 or early 1949, during his final year of art school at the...

History of photography: The state of research.
September 1, 2001... Fifteen years ago there appeared in these pages a brief statement by then Art Bulletin editor Richard E. Spear announcing a series of stock-taking essays on the principal fields of the discipline. These were intended to address "the current...

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
September 1, 2001... MICHAEL KELLY, ED. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 2,208 pp.; 90 b/w ills. $495.00 Writing a review of a work on aesthetics for a journal read by art historians seems rather like...

Architektur and Ornament: Venezianischer Bauschmuck der Renaissance.
September 1, 2001... WOLFGANG WOLTERS Architektur and Ornament: Venezianischer Bauschmuck der Renaissance Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000. 320 pp.; 166 color ills., 191 b/w. DM 140 Wolfgang Wolters's new book takes its cue from the often overlooked pages on...

The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance.
September 1, 2001... J. V. FIELD The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 264 pp.; 100 b/w ills., 32 color, 200 line drawings. $35 In Two New Sciences, a dialogue published toward the end...

Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance.
September 1, 2001... HARRY BERGER JR. Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. 624 pp; 32 color ills., 51 b/w. $85; $39.95 paper The late, great Rembrandt, I am happy to...

Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark.
September 1, 2001... PAMELA M. LEE Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. 280 pp.; 99 ills. $35 The intentions of Object to be Destroyed are extremely ambitious. The author, Pamela Lee, characterizes...