Stories Collection

  1. As an artist I know remarked recently to a younger colleague, the art market is not t...
  2. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 194 pp., 39 b/w ills. $47.50 The Doryp...
  3. As a historian who had concentrated on the history of philosophy and the theory of hi...
  4. 3 vols. Modena Italy: Franco Casimo Panini, 1994. Vol. 1: 595 pp.; 790 color ills. Vo...
  5. From the nineteenth century, History was to deploy, in a temporal series, the analogi...
  6. Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 1993. 202 pp.; 47 b/w ills. DM 44.80 Many a s...
  7. Recent years have seen a remarkable reawakening of critical interest among Anglophone...
  8. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. 312 pp.; 54 b/w ills. $39.50 These...
  9. Spring was coming and the sittings were coming to an end. All of a sudden one day Pic...
  10. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. 264 pp.; 4 color ills., 73 b/w. $4...
  11. In a clumsy conclusion to an otherwise tightly argued case, James Beck recently imput...
  12. Edouard Vuillard dwelled in a mundus muliebris, we have been told, a "saturated femin...
  13. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 496 pp.; 277 color ills.; 345 b/w. $60.00 By 1964, w...
  14. While I hope to know something of art, I cannot claim to be familiar with power or mo...
  15. Born in 1717 to English parents in Peter the Great's Russia, Alexander Cozens was edu...
  16. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996. 328 pp.; 315 color ills.; 21 b/w. $75.0...
  17. The earlier culture will become a heap of rubble and finally a heap of ashes, but spi...
  18. In 211 B.C. the great general M. Claudius Marcellus returned to Rome after his decisi...
  19. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 1,032 pp.; 111 b/w ills. $60.00; $29....
  20. There are many ways in which money impacts on publishing decisions in the world of ar...
  21. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995. 375 pp.; 4 color ills., 430 b/w. $50.00...
  22. Knowledge has no price but the acquisition of knowledge, as Brecht's Galileo vividly ...
  23. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. 184 pp.; 19 b/w ills. $39.95 The Dor...
  24. I would like to situate this essay within the context of the "culture wars" that have...
  25. The recent special issue of English Literary Renaissance entitled "The State of Renai...
  26. A printer's error in the last issue caused footnote 12 of Joseph Kosuth's "Intention(...
  27. "Egyptomania" is the term that, for better or worse, has come to define the recurring...
  28. Berlin was the preeminent building site in National Socialist Germany through the lat...
  29. If the structuralist art history of Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss has brought a ...
  30. There is no longer any question of Picasso or icons. Repin is what the peasant wants,...
  31. If the structuralist art history of Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss has brought a ...
  32. Given the imprecision of some of these ancien regime institutions, they were often on...
  33. If the structuralist art history of Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss has brought a ...
  34. The theatrical display of new science and empirical investigation as "strange and mir...
  35. In 1986, Arnout Balis published the first comprehensive account of Rubens's hunting p...
  36. Paper Jews: Inscription/Ethnicity/Ethnography Last summer I encountered two etchings ...
  37. Jacopo Tintoretto designed three paintings for the Venetian parish church of S. Margh...
  38. One of the greatest difficulties plaguing the study of Roman art is the persistent no...
  39. Before the Second World War, through Max J. Friedlander and Friedrich Winkler, the st...
  40. Race was disproved as a coherent scientific category by Franz Boas in 1928, but racis...
  41. The recent special issue of English Literary Renaissance entitled "The State of Renai...
  42. Taken together, the books under review offer an occasion to map the overlapping conce...
  43. Taken together, the books under review offer an occasion to map the overlapping conce...
  44. The Chinese art-historical canon has had a checkered life in this country. The field ...
  45. The Life of Fra Angelico provoked Giorgio Vasari to make one of his most pointed inte...
  46. Art-historical writing is for the most part clotted with jargon and larded with clich...
  47. The Life of Fra Angelico provoked Giorgio Vasari to make one of his most pointed inte...
  48. It has often been observed, by Barbara Stafford and others,(1) that the study of 18th...
  49. It has often been observed, by Barbara Stafford and others,(1) that the study of 18th...
  50. Taken together, the books under review offer an occasion to map the overlapping conce...
  51. The Florentine-born painter Luca Penni (1504?-1556/7) was at least in his mid- to lat...
  52. The four volumes under review offer in microcosm a revealing insight into the state o...
  53. During his rule of the Florentine government (1469-92), Lorenzo de' Medici imposed hi...
  54. The four volumes under review offer in microcosm a revealing insight into the state o...
  55. The world map that Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted in 1345 for the communal palace of Sie...
  56. Shortly after the Chinese Communists gained control of China and established the Peop...
  57. The death of a queen in childbirth and the grief of her bereaved husband are represen...
  58. I used to be almost embarrassed to admit to friends and colleagues the place where I ...
  59. The limestone slabs carved with reliefs that lined the walls of the Assyrian royal pa...
  60. The recent inquiry in art and architectural history that centers on "rethinking the c...
  61. Spying the love-smitten Juliet from afar, Shakespeare's similarly afflicted Romeo cou...
  62. A man looks in through the glass observation window of a dolphinarium. He is smoking ...
  63. Alex Potts's compelling book on Winckelmann might have been called "Mourning the Impo...
  64. Theory and History Some years ago I wrote for a collection entitled The New Art Histo...
  65. Readers familiar with Thomas Crow's previous writings will find in his new book the q...
  66. Without the canon, we cease to think. - Harold Bloom(1) Men think in myths. - Claude ...
  67. The four volumes under review offer in microcosm a revealing insight into the state o...
  68. The four volumes under review offer in microcosm a revealing insight into the state o...
  69. Theory in My Time When I entered graduate school in the history of art at the Institu...
  70. This collection of articles grew out of a CAA session held in 1988, although the focu...
  71. To reread as a woman is at least to imagine the lady's place; to imagine when reading...
  72. Following Constantine the Great's elevation of Christianity to privileged status in 3...
  73. What we have mostly come to mean by "theory" is an attitude of ironic doubt toward an...
  74. The Roman basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano is one of the oldest, largest, and most...
  75. They [the Impressionists] do not imitate; they translate, they interpret. They set ou...
  76. Yule Heibel's remarkable reflections on German painting and culture after the Second ...
  77. Relatively few nineteenth-century American paintings picture and interpret urban spac...
  78. Yule Heibel's remarkable reflections on German painting and culture after the Second ...
  79. Charles Willson Peale's Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE ...
  80. Yule Heibel's remarkable reflections on German painting and culture after the Second ...
  81. We are all condamnes . . .: we are all under sentence of death but with a sort of ind...
  82. In an article in the Times Literary Supplement several years ago, Umberto Eco quoted ...
  83. The influence of European prints and paintings on the art of colonial Spanish America...
  84. In an article in the Times Literary Supplement several years ago, Umberto Eco quoted ...
  85. Since I am not an art historian in the sense of belonging to that profession through ...
  86. Unusual circumstances make it possible to compare two fifteenth-century Chinese colle...
  87. In an article in the Times Literary Supplement several years ago, Umberto Eco quoted ...
  88. Having recently been called a "crypto-formalist," a "new kind of Greenberg, one with ...
  89. In the entire corpus of Roman architecture few sites present so richly articulated ye...
  90. Today some art historians regard interdisciplinarity (I hope to be forgiven for not u...
  91. Most images are not art. In addition to pictures made in accord with the Western conc...
  92. In 1053 the Japanese nobleman Fujiwara no Yorimichi (990-1074), of the celebrated Fuj...
  93. Myth is never more scandalous, never more repellent and seductive, than at the moment...
  94. For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the...
  95. If it were true, as Mieke Bal critically reports and Jonathan Culler recounts, that s...
  96. Everyone involved in the heated debate over interdisciplinarity, curiously, appears t...
  97. In April of 1809 Turner opened his private gallery to "the classes of Dilettanti, Con...
  98. As Donald Preziosi has noted in these pages,(1) the literature on museums is immense:...
  99. Myth is never more scandalous, never more repellent and seductive, than at the moment...
  100. Delicately carved mythological reliefs, ebullient fountains, and magnificent monument...
  101. Vetoes and Compatibilities Today some art historians regard interdisciplinarity (I ho...
  102. For Esther Gordon Dotson And Your Lordship well knows that just as paper has no less ...
  103. As Donald Preziosi has noted in these pages,(1) the literature on museums is immense:...
  104. For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the...
  105. After two decades of silence, a book has finally been published which treats the work...
  106. The present essay constitutes a very preliminary attempt to delineate through time th...
  107. Guarini's domed, centrally planned chapel of the Holy Shroud (1657-94) towers over th...
  108. As Donald Preziosi has noted in these pages,(1) the literature on museums is immense:...
  109. For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the...
  110. If it were true, as Mieke Bal critically reports and Jonathan Culler recounts, that s...
  111. Ille. By the help of an image I call to my own opposite, summon all That I have handl...
  112. In the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, Raphael's School of Athens (1509-12) ha...
  113. This type of detailed monograph is exactly what Western scholarship on Japanese art n...
  114. For over a decade now the biggest news about Michelangelo has been concerned with the...
  115. If it were true, as Mieke Bal critically reports and Jonathan Culler recounts, that s...
  116. Art is perforce embedded in history; texts are always and everywhere conditioned by f...
  117. A Better History The historical inquiry into the art of the past--up to the immediate...
  118. In the 1260s, Humbert of Romans, former master general of the Dominican order, wrote ...
  119. CHARLES HARRISON, FRANCIS FRASCINA, AND GILL PERRY New Haven: Yale University Press i...
  120. STEPHEN ADDISS AND MARY ERICKSON Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 2.56 pp....
  121. I encounter nearly every day the instability of the equation "Art > < History."...
  122. Under historicism, which entailed the historical study of ancient and modern art a...
  123. The complex relationship between Venetian and Byzantine culture in the thirteenth cen...
  124. BRIONY FER, DAVID BATCHELOR, AND PAUL WOOD New Haven: Yale University Press in associ...
  125. MICHAEL J. PARSONS AND H. GENE BLOCKER Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 20...
  126. A centipede was strolling along when a journal editor came by and asked, "How do y...
  127. With a ferocity that the late twentieth century now understands from the AIDS epidemi...
  128. JOHN MALCOLM RUSSELL University of Chicago Press, 1991. 350 pp.; 139 b/w ills. $45.00...
  129. PAUL WOOD, FRANCIS FRASCINA, JONATHAN HARRIS, AND CHARLES HARRISON New Haven: Yale Un...
  130. MAURICE BROWN AND DIANA KORZENIK Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. 240 pp.;...
  131. Where there is no vision, the people perish.(1) It is against this double hegemony...
  132. This essay, an interpretation of a major Late Renaissance hall of state, is based on ...
  133. THOMAS F. MATHEWS Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. 208 pp.; 16 colo...
  134. DAVID M. LUBIN New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 584 pp., 50 color ills., 140 b...
  135. In the late twentieth century, one challenging problem in the relationship of art to ...
  136. Most studies of tomb sculpture in late medieval and early modern Europe have focused ...
  137. FRANCIS FRASCINA, NIGEL BLAKE, BRIONY FER, TAMAR GARB, AND CHARLES HARRISON New Haven...
  138. ALBERT WILLIAM LEVI AND RALPH A. SMITH Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. 28...
  139. Not long ago, The Asia Society organized two very different exhibitions, which were o...
  140. Among the early sixteenth-century collections in the Netherlands the art collection o...
  141. Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is...
  142. Scions of princely families, beneficiaries of pontifical patronage, members of the sa...
  143. Over the last fifteen years photography has become an increasingly serious subject of...
  144. In recent years the policies and politics of collecting and display, the history of m...
  145. Hugo van der Goes's Portinari Altarpiece is perhaps the single most studied Flemish p...
  146. Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is...
  147. Scions of princely families, beneficiaries of pontifical patronage, members of the sa...
  148. As a contribution to anglophone criticism of the work of Kurt Schwitters, Dorothea Di...
  149. The Uncurated Jar The specimens in this jar [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED] were ...
  150. The Dominican priory of S. Maria Novella in Florence is not only a religious institut...
  151. Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is...
  152. In the course of the 18th century the European cultural sphere was radically reconfig...
  153. Nearly seventy years after its composition, Erwin Panofsky's "Die Perspektive als 'sy...
  154. French political life, in the decades preceding World War I, was characterized by an ...
  155. That every meaningful city represents a political system has always been known. Polit...
  156. Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is...
  157. In the course of the 18th century the European cultural sphere was radically reconfig...
  158. For most members of the public, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting ...
  159. The coupling of the Words "architecture" and "French Revolution" still calls to mind ...
  160. The dedication of the Ste.-Chapelle on April 26, 1248, not only marked the completion...
  161. Stained glass, the most durable and brilliant of all forms of monumental painting, is...
  162. Over the last fifteen years photography has become an increasingly serious subject of...
  163. When Pelayo became bishop of Oviedo in 1101, it must have seemed that the mountains w...
  164. If anything might be said to characterize art history in the nineties it is the accep...
  165. Grounded in the idealist thinking of the Aesthetic movement, which from the 1870s to ...
  166. The Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS nouv. acq. lat. 2334),(1) convincingl...
  167. Manfredo Tafuri's place in the history of architecture of our times is unique. Freeth...
  168. Standards. Marey, a physiologist, devoted his life to them. He would contribute to ma...
  169. When I go out, . . . I fill my pockets with them and give them to the local children ...
  170. Since the Later Han dynasty (25-220), ink-written calligraphy has been seen as an exp...
  171. For Jacob Burckhardt, the great tradition of modern European easel painting originate...
  172. A portrait type that appeared with relentless frequency in England in the eighteenth ...
  173. 35. E. H. Gombrich, "Meditations on a Hobby Horse or the Roots of Artistic Form," in ...
  174. Regensburg, which lies about forty miles southeast of Nuremburg, thrived more gloriou...
  175. 60. It is represented in Giovanni's pulpit in the Duomo of Pisa. The legends are summ...
  176. In the hands of the connoisseur of the "ugly Jew," the amateur of the "bestial black ...
  177. The era of the large exhibition as an eye-opener to an exciting, hitherto unexplored ...
  178. 1. Toward dusk we drew near Milan and caught glimpses of the city and the blue mounta...
  179. The subject of the history of art should include all human making. I will argue that ...
  180. from them if Taddeo wishes it (Pecchiai, 184-85). Giuseppe Sacchi Lodispoto (464, 466...
  181. Does it make sense to write a monograph of 335 pages on an artist like Jan van Kessel...
  182. In late September 1869, tens of thousands of Parisians set out for a new weekend tour...
  183. Thursday, April 21, 1994, 7:00 A.M.--Alternating between coffee and newspaper, I am s...
  184. Art History from a Distance Art history as a subject has always been somewhat embarra...
  185. (Ambleto, Macbetto, Edipo). 62. For Folengo's anti-Bembo position, see G. Folena, "Il...
  186. Does vision have a history? If it does, are works of art the best access we have to h...
  187. For as long as I can remember, I have been encouraged to write stories and challenged...
  188. 45. Wassily Kandinsky, "Reminiscences" (1913), in Robert L. Herbert, ed., Modern Arti...
  189. There can be little doubt that the encounter between medieval Western Europe and Byza...
  190. Peter Burke's encompassing look at royal imagery during the reign of Louis XIV is the...
  191. Does the subject--as either artist or viewer--maintain an identity independent of the...
  192. biographer E. Lemaitre, Arsene Houssaye: Notes et souvenirs; Bibliographie, Reims, 18...
  193. 84. Ashmole and Yalouris, 25. 85. LIMC, v, 1, 57, 59, no. 2302, s.v. "Herakles' Labou...
  194. When Dame Frances Yates, back in the 1950s, studied the Renaissance revival of univer...
  195. Recent art history holds that subjects--human individuals with personal, ethnic, and ...
  196. The deconstruction of the "gaze" in art-historical theory over the last two decades h...
  197. 105. Lami (as in n. 64), 1, 229; and F. Boyer, "Le Sculpteur Barthelemy Corneille a R...
  198. The Forum Transitorium, also called the Forum of Nerva and a few other names, is an e...
  199. Watteau scholarship has developed in the last two decades a remarkable momentum of it...