Stories Collection

  1. A photograph of 1894 shows Paul Cezanne in his Paris studio at work on a small canvas...
  2. PAMELA MCCLUSKY WITH ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke...
  3. BRANDEN JOSEPH Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde Cambridg...
  4. One of the most provocative images in Japanese art is the kusozu, a graphic depiction...
  5. APEL, DORA. Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob. New Brunswick: ...
  6. Public ritual in late medieval and Renaissance Florence was largely dependent on the ...
  7. On May 23, 1871, the Palais d'Orsay was ravaged by a fire during the wave of incendia...
  8. This essay proposes a new reading of Gustave Courbet's The Meeting, better known as B...
  9. The Dawn of Photography; French Daguerreotypes, 1839-1855 The Metropolitan Museum o...
  10. In 1935, Edith Halpert of the Downtown Gallery, New York, sold Charles Sheeler's View...
  11. JOHN ONIANS, ED. Atlas of World Art London: Oxford University Press, 2004. 352 pp...
  12. LEO STEINBERG Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper New York: Zone Books, 2001. 317 pp...
  13. The Venetian Zecca, or mint, boasts an impressive portal (Fig. 1). Two overlife-size ...
  14. HUGO VAN DER VELDEN The Donor's Image: Gerard Loyet and the Votive Portraits of Cha...
  15. The placing of artists' signatures on works of art has been viewed as an act that com...
  16. TODD PORTERFIELD The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 179...
  17. In her essay "The Originality of the Avant-Garde," Rosalind Krauss conclude...
  18. HOLLIS CLAYSON Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871) Ch...
  19. No two artists have seemed as diametrically opposed in their expression of the repres...
  20. On June 5, 1788, in the busy port town of Annapolis, Maryland, Charles Willson Peale ...
  21. AKERMAN, JEREMY. Chad McCail: Life Is Driven by the Desire for Pleasure. Exh. cat. Ed...
  22. As a direct consequence of the Opium War (1840-42), the treaty port of Shanghai emerg...
  23. When Nagase Tomiro opened his Western sundries shop in Tokyo in 1887, cosmetic soap u...
  24. caa.reviews, published by the College Art Association, is an online journal devoted t...
  25. New Yorkers out on the town for an evening of art in late October 1942 would have fou...
  26. HANS BELTING Bild-Anthropologie: Entwurfe fur eine Bildwissenschaft Munich: Wilhe...
  27. In this, my final issue as editor-in-chief, I would like to acknowledge the many coll...
  28. The title of Maggie Keswick's book The Chinese Garden, which has served as American r...
  29. Butchers, fish vendors, and poultry sellers appear quite abruptly in northern Italian...
  30. The discovery in June 1937 of a wooden building, the east hall of Foguang Monastery, ...
  31. LOTHAR LEDDEROSE Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art T...
  32. African Art (sub-Saharan) ANDERSON, SEAN S., "In-Visible Colonies: Modern Arch...
  33. AAV, MARIANNE, ED. Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture. Exh. cat. New York: Bar...
  34. "Incalculable" was William Dunlap's estimation of Benjamin West's effect on...
  35. Renowned as a great portraitist in the seventeenth century, the Spaniard Diego Velazq...
  36. caa.reviews, published by the College Art Association, is an online journal devoted t...
  37. CYNTHIA HAHN Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints ...
  38. MICHAEL FRIED Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin L...
  39. ROGER BENJAMIN Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1...
  40. In the south transept of the lower church of S. Francesco, Assisi, in the early fourt...
  41. Jinci, or the Memorial Shrine of Jin, perhaps the most unconventional shrine complex ...
  42. ADAMS, PARVEEN, ED. Art: Sublimation or Symptom. New York: Other Press, 2003. 180 pp....
  43. In the Salon of 1765 the painting that caused the greatest stir was Jean-Honore Frago...
  44. Pedestrians walking down Thompson Street off Greenwich Village's Washington Square Pa...
  45. In the third quarter of the fifteenth century, the Confraternity of Corpus Domini, a ...
  46. The notion of self-representation, understood as a deliberate distancing from one's o...
  47. In the summer of 1857, the year that Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) debuted The Gle...
  48. When Beaumont Newhall, at the urging of Ansel Adams, brought survey photography into ...
  49. HANS BELTING Trans. Helen Atkins Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 480 ...
  50. Since its rediscovery in 1838, the tomb of the baker has sparked the interest of visi...
  51. SUSAN BUCK-MORSS Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and...
  52. In her article "Japanese Art History 2001: The State and Stakes of Research," Profess...
  53. NIGEL WHITELEY Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. 494 pp.; 89 b/w ills. $39.95 As...
  54. In a letter dated Mexico City, April 28, 1770, the marques de Moncada, an impoverishe...
  55. Caravaggio's "Self-Portrait" by Ribera In his illuminating article "Caravaggio's De...
  56. Long snubbed by art historians as an ill-matched couple, art and economics have enjoy...
  57. (November 2002-January 2003) ABELL, SAM, AND LEAH BENDAVID-VAL. Sam A Bell: The P...
  58. One of the most influential images in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Prima pane di arch...
  59. A cultural geography of Mediterranean France that emphasized the region's naturally h...
  60. To try to describe the art of a gigantic empire is as daunting a task as one could ta...
  61. ANTHONY GRAFTON New York: Hill and Wang, 2000. 415 pp.; 1 color ill,, 27 b/w. $35.0...
  62. MARIO CARPO Trans. Sarah Benson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001. 246 pp.; 27 b/w ...
  63. September-October 2002 ALBERRO, ALEXANDER. Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publi...
  64. In 1946, a little more than a year after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hi...
  65. (September-October 2002) CAA.Reviews, published online by the college Art Associati...
  66. Antioch: The Lost Ancient City Worcester Art Museum, October 7, 2000--February 4, 2...
  67. MARIA GEORGOPOULOU Venice's Mediterranean Colonies: Architecture and Urbanism Cam...
  68. ALEXANDER NAGEL Michelangelo and the Reform of Art Cambridge: Cambridge University ...
  69. In many academic endeavors, textual evidence is decidedly and somewhat understandably...
  70. CAROL ARMSTRONG Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 ...
  71. GREG M. THOMAS Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Theo...
  72. DEBORA SILVERMAN Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art New York: Farrar...
  73. WANDA M. CORN The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935...
  74. Guiding us through his exercises in skepticism, seeking to show us how our world migh...
  75. "Living Memorials" after the Civil War I recently read with interest Andrew M. Shan...
  76. He turned his head like an old tortoise in the sunlight. "Is it true that there are m...
  77. (July-August 2002) AHL, DIANE COLE, ED. The Cambridge Companion to Masaccio. New Yo...
  78. In the sight of an old pair of shoes there is something profoundly melancholy.--attri...
  79. Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South The Art Institute of Chicago, Septemb...
  80. ANITA ALBUS The Art of Arts: Rediscovering Painting Trans. Michael Robertson. New...
  81. JONATHAN HAY Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China. Cambridge: Cambr...
  82. NANCY LOCKE Manet and the Family Romance Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2...
  83. CHRISTOPHER GREEN Art in France 1900-1940 New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000....
  84. The Chinese painting of architectural subjects--buildings, boats, wheeled vehicles, a...
  85. MATTHEW BAIGELL Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America New York: Cambri...
  86. ... because painting comes from Shades, and Sculpture from Idols.--Anton Francesco Do...
  87. In "Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth-Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji" (March...
  88. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotter...
  89. Thomas Eakins: American Realist Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 4, 2001-January...
  90. BEAT WYSS Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity Trans. Caroline Dobso...
  91. DEBRA PINCUS The Tombs of the Doges of Venice Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre...
  92. DIANA NORMAN Siena and the Virgin: Art and Politics in a Late Medieval City State ...
  93. LISA TICKNER Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Ce...
  94. [Marsyas's] sinews lie bare, his veins throb and quiver with no skin to cover them......
  95. AMY NEWMAN Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1972 New York: Soho Press, 2000. 559 pp.;...
  96. Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio (1986) with the feverish ar...
  97. A Closer Look at Eastern European Modernism James Elkins's review (Art Bulletin 82 ...
  98. Andre Malraux, writing in The Voices of Silence, observed that "every great painter h...
  99. (April-June 2002) ABIFARES, HUDA SMITHSHUIJZEN. Arabic Typography: A Comprehensive ...
  100. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the two most important English writers on...
  101. In "Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth-Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at Kanshinji" (March...
  102. When Raphael died in 1520, his workshop in Rome was jointly inherited by his two lead...
  103. ALEX POTTS The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist. New Hav...
  104. Few Renaissance chapels have preoccupied modern scholars as much as the Capponi Chape...
  105. The following lists of Dissertations in Progress and Dissertations Completed cover th...
  106. Some time between late 1646 and early 1647, Chen Hongshou (1598--1652) painted an unu...
  107. January-March 2002 ABT, JEFEREY, A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of ...
  108. The hurry noise & restlessness of Rail Road travelling with the consequent violence d...
  109. Like so many fields of art history, the study of seventeenth-century Netherlandish ar...
  110. THOMAS CROW The intelligence of art. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carol...
  111. OLGA HAZAN Le mythe du progres artistique. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite ...
  112. DIANE WOLFTHAL Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives. Cambr...
  113. As has frequently been noted, an abrupt change in the artistic rendering of Buddhist ...
  114. CARMEN C. BAMBACH Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory ...
  115. Two different worlds present themselves to the scholar of Hebrew illuminated manuscri...
  116. JODI CRANSTON The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge: C...
  117. The terms fascism and modern art used to seem comfortingly opposed to each other, but...
  118. MARVIN TRACHTENBERG Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern F...
  119. PAUL A. HILLS Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550 New ...
  120. EDWARD SNOW Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games New York: Nort...
  121. Scholars have postulated the existence of an international style for the arts of the ...
  122. JAMES J. SHEEHAN Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to...
  123. The honzon, or primary icon, (1) of the Japanese Buddhist temple Kanshinji is a statu...
  124. MOLLY NESBIT Their Common Sense London: Black Dog, 2000. 376 pp.; 151 b/w ills. $...
  125. In his 1672 Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Giovan Pietro Bel...
  126. JAMES ELKINS What Painting Is New York: Routledge, 1998. 246 pp.; 25 color and b/...
  127. By his own admission, the eminent Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt suffered...
  128. History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogeneous, empty time, but ...
  129. One month after atomic bombs annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Philip Johnson propo...
  130. It was a strange Paris, that one. You do remember it: cholera was everything; it had ...
  131. When the doors of the Louvre opened at noon on March 1, 1834, the public received its...
  132. The point at which Native American art (or indeed any indigenous tradition) became "m...
  133. JEAN WIRTH L'image a' l'epoque romane Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1999. 506 pp...
  134. ELIZABETH HILL BOONE Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs an...
  135. EVELYN LINCOLN The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker New Haven: Yal...
  136. While art historians have steadily pursued the study of patterns of artistic consumpt...
  137. And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot saw them.... And they smote the men...
  138. It was Pierre Francastel who christened the most famous program of sculpture in the h...
  139. J. V. FIELD The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance Oxf...
  140. Saint Bernard's Cloister In his celebrated Apologia of 1125, Saint Bernard of Clair...
  141. HARRY BERGER JR. Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt against the Italian Renaissance ...
  142. The poet and essayist Yuan Mei (1716-1798) was in his midsixties when Luo Ping (1733-...
  143. PAMELA M. LEE Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Cambridge, M...
  144. Antoine Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera (Fig. 1) served as his reception piece at the...
  145. Thomas Eakins first came to public attention in the mid-1870s as a painter of water-s...
  146. Among the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Republic of Benin, the word aworan commonly refer...
  147. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homo...
  148. Fifteen years ago there appeared in these pages a brief statement by then Art Bulleti...
  149. MICHAEL KELLY, ED. Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. 4 vols. New York: Oxford Universit...
  150. WOLFGANG WOLTERS Architektur and Ornament: Venezianischer Bauschmuck der Renaissanc...
  151. Today the Shinto shrines at Ise embody some of the most treasured aesthetic values as...
  152. In a community discussion of the look of Chicago led by a working group of three facu...
  153. JEFFREY F. HAMBURGER New York: Zone Books, 1998. 608 PP., 5 color ills., 241 b/w. $...
  154. ROBERTA OLSON The Florentine Tondo Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 408 pp....
  155. JOANNA WOODS-MARSDEN New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 295 pp.; 57 color ills...
  156. For the modern world, the Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) has come to sy...
  157. JAMES E. YOUNG New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 256 pp.; 47 color ills., 56 ...
  158. Although Jan Steen is a famously funny painter, the only picture in the splendid exhi...
  159. T. J. CLARK Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism New Haven a...
  160. The pain that nevertheless remains bears witness to ... the experience of having been...
  161. I have just read and much admired Nancy Locke's learned and sensitive interpretation ...
  162. About thirty miles north of Rome, within the former state of Ronciglione, the Villa F...
  163. Seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting, at its best, derives an unsettling power fr...
  164. Portraits in miniature occupy an uncertain place in art historical studies. In public...
  165. CAROLINE A. JONES Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist ...
  166. This article introduces an icon and an inscription: a virtually unstudied Buddhist po...
  167. In Defense of Jean Sutherland Boggs In his review of the exhibition Degas at the Ra...
  168. The allure of the object in a world of language is the dilemma of the art historian. ...
  169. The Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., organized a symposium, "Asia in Museums...
  170. The Splendor of Eighteenth-Century Rome Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 16-May 28...
  171. VAUGHAN HART AND PETER HICKS, EDS. Paper Palaces: The Rise of the Renaissance Archi...
  172. FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist New Have...
  173. In its over eighty years, the Art Bulletin has veered only occasionally from its esse...
  174. EWA LAJER-BURCHARTH Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror Ne...
  175. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of ha...
  176. JONATHAN CRARY Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture ...
  177. For all the individual analyses of Donatello's bronze David and Judith and Holofernes...
  178. ROBERT A. SOBIESZEK Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 ...
  179. In the opening lines to his 1914 volume Pittura scultura Futuriste: Dinamismo plastic...
  180. In the 1890s, Norwegian anthropologist Carl Lumholtz set out to explore the Sierra Ma...
  181. FRANCIS AMES-LEWIS AND MARY ROGERS, EDS. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998. 241 pp.; 48 b/w ...
  182. Thomas Hardy's early novel A Laodicean (first published in 1881) focuses on the relat...
  183. LEONARD BARKAN New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999, 428 pp.; 199 b/w ...
  184. JORG TRAEGER Munich: Beck, 1997. 552 pp.; 17 color ills., 241 b/w. DM178.00; DM78.0...
  185. JONATHAN BROWN New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Pelican History of Art,...
  186. Of all the testaments to the golden age of Venetian painting, perhaps the most ignore...
  187. ALEXANDRE KOSTKA AND IRVING WOHLFARTH, EDS. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute f...
  188. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Italy, altarpieces were essentially hyb...