The Art Bulletin articles from September 2004

The Art Bulletin archives from September 2004

Portal of empire and wealth: Jacopo Sansovino's entrance to the Venetian mint.
September 1, 2004... The Venetian Zecca, or mint, boasts an impressive portal (Fig. 1). Two overlife-size herms of bearded, bare-chested, muscular men--almost mirror images of each other--support a Doric entablature and frame the rusticated, round-arched opening...

From Allegri to Laetus-Lieto: the shaping of Correggio's artistic distinctiveness.
September 1, 2004... The placing of artists' signatures on works of art has been viewed as an act that communicates the masters' presence and authenticates the authorship. Signatures usually consist of artists' names or monograms, but they also appear as visual,...

New and improved: repetition as originality in Italian Baroque practice and theory.
September 1, 2004... In her essay "The Originality of the Avant-Garde," Rosalind Krauss concluded with a brief discussion about Sherrie Levine's original photographs of reproductions of other artists' photographs (Fig. 1). Originality and repetition, Krauss...

Poussin's reflection.(Nicolas Poussin )
September 1, 2004... No two artists have seemed as diametrically opposed in their expression of the representational purpose of painting as Michelangelo da Caravaggio and Nicolas Poussin (Figs. 1, 2). Each conceived of painting as a reflection, but understood in...

"Extend the sphere": Charles Willson Peale's panorama of Annapolis.
September 1, 2004... On June 5, 1788, in the busy port town of Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) began an extraordinary experiment in panoramic representation. Shortly before dusk, he arrived at the Maryland State House clutching two homemade...

Remapping borders: Ren Bonian's frontier paintings and urban life in 1880s Shanghai.
September 1, 2004... As a direct consequence of the Opium War (1840-42), the treaty port of Shanghai emerged as one of the most cosmopolitan and commercially vibrant cities in nineteenth-century China. (1) English traders arrived first and were soon joined by an...

"From baby's first bath": Kao soap and modern Japanese commercial design.
September 1, 2004... When Nagase Tomiro opened his Western sundries shop in Tokyo in 1887, cosmetic soap used for the face and body was not commonly seen in the average Japanese household, and in Japan neither hand washing nor hair washing was the general custom...

The Donor's Image: Gerard Loyet and the Votive Portraits of Charles the Bold.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... HUGO VAN DER VELDEN The Donor's Image: Gerard Loyet and the Votive Portraits of Charles the Bold Turnhout: Brepols, 2000. 388 pp.; 16 color ills., 133 b/w. [euro]85.00 MARINA BELOZERSKAYA Rethinking the Renaissance:...

The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... TODD PORTERFIELD The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836 Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. 253 pp.; 20 color ills., 85 b/w. $55.00 DARCY GRIMALDO GRIGSBY Extremities: Painting...

Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871).(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... HOLLIS CLAYSON Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 472 pp.; 36 color ills., 181 b/w. $55.00 ARDEN REED Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism:...

Picasso: Style and Meaning.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... ELIZABETH COWLING Picasso: Style and Meaning New York: Phaidon Press, 2002. 704 pp.; 507 color ills., 119 b/w. $125.00; $49.95 paper PEPE KARMEL Picasso and the Invention of Cubism New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003....

Books received: (February-April 2004).
September 1, 2004... AKERMAN, JEREMY. Chad McCail: Life Is Driven by the Desire for Pleasure. Exh. cat. Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 2003. 64 pp.; many color ills. Paper [pounds sterling]10.00 (0947912630) ALBRIGHT, DANIEL, ED. Modernism and Music: An...

Reviews online: (February-May 2004).
September 1, 2004... ACIDINI LUCHINAT, CRISTINA, ET AL. The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence. New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002. Reviewed by GIANCARLO FIORENZA. ACKLEY, CLIFFORD...