The Art Bulletin articles from September 2003

The Art Bulletin archives from September 2003

Meyer Schapiro in Silos: pursuing an iconography of style.(Castilian monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos)
September 1, 2003... The great interest of the Marxist approach lies not only in the attempt to interpret historically changing relations of art and economic life in the light of a general theory of society but also in the weight given to the differences and...

"You who once were far off": enlivening scripture in the main portal at Vezelay.(narthex portal of Ste-Madeleine de Vezelay)
September 1, 2003... The great sculpted portals of Romanesque France reemerged as objects of more than local interest around the middle of the nineteenth century. (1) Ever since that time, churchgoers, tourists, and students of art history, alike have recorded...

Rubens's France: gender and personification in the Marie de Medicis cycle.
September 1, 2003... Peter Paul Rubens's cycle of twenty-four monumental paintings representing the life and deeds of the dowager queen Marie de Medicis of France presents one of the best-known and frequently debated allegorical displays in early modern European...

Two Waldorf-Astorias: spatial economies as totem and fetish.
September 1, 2003... [At the Waldorf-Astoria] you are in presence of a revelation of the possibilities of the hotel--for which the American spirit has found so unprecedented a use and a value; leading it on to express so a social, indeed positively an aesthetic...

The end of the American Century: current scholarship on the art of the United States.
September 1, 2003... In cribbing my title from Henry R. Luce's famous Life magazine essay of 1941, I begin with more than one paradox. Luce wrote of an "American Century" that had not fully taken place. Frustrated by isolationist political sentiment and what he...

The "return" of religion in the scholarship of American art.
September 1, 2003... Emanuel Leutze's best-known work is that standard of American history painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, completed in 1851. (1) The image is one of a loosely related cluster of paintings in which Leutze (1816-1868) explored the origins...

Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, Eds. Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Karlsruhe: Center for Art and Media; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 703 pp., 300 color ills., 535 b/w. $45.00 paper Massive in size and weight, but creatively edited and profusely illustrated, this is an attractive book on an exciting...

Jean K. Cadogan: Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 384 pp.; 90 color ills., 56 b/w. $70.00 The monumental fresco decorations of the Sassetti Chapel, the Tornabuoni Chapel, and the Sala dei Gigli in the Palazzo Vecchio number among the most important...

Maryvelma Smith O'Neil: Giovanni Baglione: Artistic Reputation in Baroque Rome.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 428 pp.; 15 color ills., 108 b/w. $130.00 Recent monographic studies of seicento artists, such as Richard Spear's on Guido Rent and Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey's on Nicolas Poussin,...

Ivan Gaskell: Vermeer's Wager: Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... IVAN GASKELL Vermeer's Wager: Speculations on Art History, Theory and Art Museums London: Reaktion Books, 2000. 270 pp.; 1 color ill., 82 b/w. $27.00 MARTHA HOLLANDER An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch...

Rebecca Bedell: The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... REBECCA BEDELL The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875 Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. 192 pp.; 26 color ills., 55 b/w. $45.00; $35.00 paper MARTIN A. BERGER Man Made: Thomas Eakins and the...

Ann Reynolds: Robert Smithson: Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere.(Book Review)
September 1, 2003... Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. 371 pp., 10 color ills., 81 b/w. $39.95 Common sense suggests that the mirror is a figure of plenitude. Standing before its reflective surface we are all tempted to proclaim (aloud or to ourselves): There...

Books Received: (February-April 2003).
September 1, 2003... ABE, STANLEY. Ordinary Images. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 408 pp.; 255 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0226000443). ALEXANDER, VICTOR D. Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms. London: Blackwell, 2003. 392 pp.; 19...