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The Art Bulletin archives from September 2009
Correction.(Correction notice)
September 1, 2009... Correction: In "Picasso's Closet" (The Art Bulletin XCI, no. 1, March 2009), Fig. 1, p. 7, a model of the set for Ariel Dorfman's play Picasso's Closet, both the model and the photograph are by Lewis Holden, the scenic designer for the 2006...
Destruction and memory on the Athenian Acropolis.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2009... The Parthenon, constructed between 447 and 432 BCE on the Athenian Acropolis, stands as the most lavish, technically refined, and programmatically cohesive temple on the Greek mainland, a fitting commemoration of the Athenians' spectacular and...
Simulating the hippodrome: the performance of power in Kiev's St. Sophia.(Kiev, Ukraine)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2009... How did people construct "places of power," and how did such places, in turn, create powerful people?--Mayke de Jong and Frans Theuws, "Topographies of Power: Some Conclusions," 2001 (1) The walls of the princely tower in Kiev's St....
Rubens and the Northern Past: the Michielsen Triptych and the thresholds of modernity.(Peter Paul Rubens)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2009... Viewing Peter Paul Rubens's Lamentation triptych is a very visceral experience (Fig. 1). This triptych is big--about 54 inches high and 70 wide (138 by 178 centimeters), when open--a scale that is quite substantial for epitaph triptychs, which...
Nature and the Ideal in Khnopff's Avec Verhaeren: Un ange and Art, or the Caresses.(Fernand Khnopff)(Critical essay)
September 1, 2009... In one of Emile Verhaeren's studies on the work of Fernand Khnopff--titled "Un peintre symboliste" and published in L'Art Moderne in April 1887--he interpreted the enigmatic figure in Khnopff's Female Sphinx (1) in the following terms: "She is...
Caricature and the New Negro in the work of Archibald Motley Jr. and Palmer Hayden.(Critical essay)
September 1, 2009... In his 1943 landmark study of African-American art, Howard University art scholar James Porter denounced two well-known Harlem scenes by Negro Renaissance artist Palmer Hayden. (1) In reference to Hayden's The Janitor Who Paints (ca. 1930, Fig....
The Art of Medieval Urbanism: Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... ROBERT A. MAXWELL The Art of Medieval Urbanism: Parthenay in Romanesque Aquitaine University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 400 pp.; 90 color ills., 190 b/w. $90.00 The "small quaint city" of Parthenay lies thirty...
The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... JERRILYNN D. DODDS, MARIA ROSA MENOCAL, AND ABIGAIL KRASNER BALBALE The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 416 pp.; 200 color ills., 10 b/w. $48.00 ...
Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 276 pp.; 102 b/w ills. $90.00.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... CHRISTY ANDERSON Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 276 pp.; 102 b/w ills. $90.00 One of the major reconstructions in modern architectural history is the life and work of Inigo Jones. Very...
Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... JULIE NELSON DAVIS Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. 296 pp.; 66 color ills., 114 b/w. $65.00 Woodcut prints and illustrated books by the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1750s-1806) have...
Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... JOHN ONIANS Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 225 pp.; 50 b/w ills. $40.00 In this provocative and ambitious book, John Onians proposes to lay the groundwork for a...
Galilei der Kunstler: Die Zeichnung, der Mond, die Sonne.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... HORST BREDEKAMP Galilei der Kunstler: Die Zeichnung, der Mond, die Sonne Berlin: Akademic-Verlag, 2007. 517 pp.; 704 color ills, and 20 b/w. $58.00 No writer from the last three decades has had a greater impact on the direction and...
The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science.(Book review)
September 1, 2009... CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. 195 pp.: 15 color ills., 44 b/w. $29.95 Synesthesia--the involuntary double-sense experience of a stimulus presented to a single...
Reviews online.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2009... (January-March 2009) caa.reviews, published online by the College Art Association, is an online journal devoted to the peer review of new books, exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art and art history. To access a review, type...
