The Art Bulletin articles from September 2002

The Art Bulletin archives from September 2002

(Dis) assembling: Marsyas, Michelangelo, and the Accademia del Disegno.
September 1, 2002... [Marsyas's] sinews lie bare, his veins throb and quiver with no skin to cover them... Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.389-90 (1) Merciful to others and merciless only to itself, a lowly creature's born, who with pain and sorrow clothes another's...

Caravaggio's deaths.(Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio)
September 1, 2002... Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio (1986) with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed (Fig. 1). The film pieces together Michelangelo da Caravaggio's life retrospectively, from the vantage point of the dying artist....

The painter's secret: Invention and rivalry from Vasari to Balzac.(Giorgio Vasari)(Honore de Balzac)
September 1, 2002... Andre Malraux, writing in The Voices of Silence, observed that "every great painter has his secret, that is to say, the means of expression by which his genius usually avails itself." In the paintings of Georges de La Tour, Mairaux explained,...

Picture consumption in London at the end of the seventeenth century.
September 1, 2002... At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the two most important English writers on art, the moralist Lord Shaftesbury (1671-1713) and the painter Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745), both registered a new concern about their countrymen's...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Draftsman Revealed. (Exhibition Reviews).
September 1, 2002... Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, May 24-August 5, 2001, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 25-December 2, 2001 Nadine M. Orenstein, ed., with contributions by...

Projecting an Image: The Contested Cultural Identity of Thomas Eakins. (Exhibition Reviews).
September 1, 2002... Thomas Eakins: American Realist Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 4, 2001-January 6, 2002 Darrel Sewell et al. Thomas Eakins, exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. 487 pp., 289 color ills., 223 b/w. $65.00 ...

Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity & Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2002... BEAT WYSS Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity Trans. Caroline Dobson Saltzwedel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 288 pp.; 66 b/w ills. $64.95 JEAN-MARIE SCHAEFFER Art of the Modern Age:...

The Tombs of the Doges of Venice, The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco, The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio & Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice: Remodelling Antiquity. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2002... DEBRA PINCUS The Tombs of the Doges of Venice Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 275 pp.; 126 b/w ills. $85.00 MARY BERGSTEIN The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 240 pp.;...

Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State, Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter & The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2002... DIANA NORMAN Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 251 pp.; 130 color ills., 90 b/w. $60.00 MEGAN HOLMES Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter ...

Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2002... LISA TICKNER Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 336 pp.; 46 color ills., 104 b/w. $45.00 This is a rich and abundantly detailed study, one that long...

Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1972. (Book Reviews).
September 1, 2002... AMY NEWMAN Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1972 New York: Soho Press, 2000. 559 pp.; 17 b/w ills. $42.00 In 1975, Hilton Kramer wrote in the New York Times that, for significant sections within the art world, "Artforum has functioned...

Letter.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2002... A Closer Look at Eastern European Modernism James Elkins's review (Art Bulletin 82 [2000]:781-85) of Steven Mansbach's Modern Art in Eastern Europe: From the Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939 raises some broad issues about the...

Books received.
September 1, 2002... (April-June 2002) ABIFARES, HUDA SMITHSHUIJZEN. Arabic Typography: A Comprehensive Sourcebook. London: Saqi Books, 2001. 263 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (0863563473). ACKERMAN, JAMES S. Origins, Imitation, Conventions:...

Errata.
September 1, 2002... In "Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth-Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji" (March 2002), the Womb World mandala reproduced as Fig. 14, on page 42, is in the collection of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto. Due to an editing error, the...