The Art Bulletin articles from September 2005

The Art Bulletin archives from September 2005

Editor's note.
September 1, 2005... Beginning with the present issue, The Art Bulletin launches a new series, "Interventions." What defines the series is partly its format: at the outset, a lead essay of broad historical, historiographical, and methodological interest; the lead...

Interventions: toward a new model of Renaissance anachronism.(Cover Story)
September 1, 2005... The Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio pictured Saint Augustine seated at a table in a roomy study, pausing, his pen raised from the paper. Augustine is writing a letter to Saint Jerome asking the older man for advice and at that very moment,...

Response: historia and anachronism in Renaissance art.
September 1, 2005... Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood have presented what is clearly the prolegomenon to a much larger study in which they attempt to retheorize phenomena that have, in fact, in one way or another, received a great deal of attention from art...

Response: Nihil sub Sole Novum.
September 1, 2005... In the field of Renaissance art history, we can usually assign makers' names to works, and so we do: we avail ourselves of biographical information of a sort that would, for earlier periods, be unimaginable, and we insert the objects we study...

Response: time out of joint.
September 1, 2005... And--to pose a question that sums up all of the others--what do we mean by "anachronism"?--Hubert Damisch, "The Theme of Choosing," 1992 (1) What Erich Auerbach understood as an "omnitemporal" scheme of history that attempts to...

The authors reply.
September 1, 2005... The image produces the effect of a collapse of time, an effect that we attempted to describe and account for in various ways. Philology, the science of difference, emerged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as a tool for chronological...

Constructing a Byzantine augusta: a Greek book for a French bride.(a book)
September 1, 2005... Marriage between outsiders is a social advance (because it integrates wider groups). It is also a venture.--Claude Levi-Strauss (1) In 1179 Agnes, the nine-year-old daughter of Louis VII of France, embarked on a Genoese ship that...

Portrait and counter-portrait in Holbein's the family of Sir Thomas More.(Hans Holbein )
September 1, 2005... Early in 1527 Hans Holbein painted two portraits of Sir Thomas More, the great English humanist and statesman who had become his host and patron when he moved to London from Basel in the fall of 1526. The first is the half-length portrait of...

From "curious" to canonical: Jehan roy de France and the origins of the French school.
September 1, 2005... In his 1928 discussion of the origins of the art of painting in France, Louis Gillet proclaimed, "It is very noteworthy that French painting begins with a portrait." (1) The image that Gillet referred to as the progenitor of French painting...

The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... STEPHEN BANN, ED. The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. 311 pp. $225 In 1994, I had the pleasure of attending a conference in Canterbury devoted to Walter Pater. One evening we went on a walking...

The Quattro Cento, and Stones of Rimini.(Art and Its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... ADRIAN STOKES The Quattro Cento, and Stones of Rimini University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. 536 pp.; 112 b/w ills. $38.00 RICHARD READ Art and Its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes ...

Le Minaret Ghouride de Jam: Un chef d'oeuvre du XIIe siecle.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... JANINE SOURDEL-THOMINE Le Minaret Ghouride de Jam: Un chef d'oeuvre du XIIe siecle Paris: Diffusion de Boccard, 2004, 171 pp.; 69 b/w ills. [euro]50 The twelfth-century minaret at Jam in central Afghanistan (roughly midway between...

Cezanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture.(The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... NINA MARIA ATHANASSOGLOU-KALLMYER Cezanne and Provence: The Painter in His Culture Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 338 pp.; 120 color ills., 102 b/w. $65.00 MARGARET WERTH The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French...

The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City.(The Chicago Tribune Competition: Skyscraper Design and Cultural Change in the 1920s)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... JOSEPH M. SIRY The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, 568 pp.: 16 color ills., 200 b/w. $55.00; $35.00 paper KATHERINE SOLOMONSON The...

Books received (February-March 2005).(Bibliography)
September 1, 2005... ABRAMOWICZ, JANET. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 41 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300100361) AGUIRRE, ROBERT D. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian...

Reviews online (December 2004-May 2005).(art exhibitions)(listings)
September 1, 2005... ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South. Exh. review. Reviewed by Virginia E. Miller. ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM. Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the National Gallery of...