Recently added articles from The Art Bulletin:
Constructing the guru: ritual authority and architectural space in medieval India.
Mar 01, 2008; Sears, Tamara I. ... For nearly three millennia the guru has remained at the nexus of Indic society as a figure revered for his innate wisdom, for his vast knowledge of spiritual texts and practices, and for his status as a living receptacle for divinity. Derived from the Sanskrit word meaning both "dispeller ...
Meaningful mingling: classicizing imagery and Islamicizing script in a Byzantine bowl.
Mar 01, 2008; Walker, Alicia ... Among the sacred relics, precious liturgical implements, and luxurious curios assembled in the treasury of the church of S. Marco, Venice, sits a well-known middle Byzantine vessel of purple-red glass embellished with bright polychrome enamel and gold paint (Fig. 1). Measuring only 6 5/8 ...
The republic at work: S. Marco's reliefs of the Venetian trades.
Mar 01, 2008; Rosen, Mark ... Many Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals throughout Italy and France featured sculptural cycles on their portals depicting the Labors of the Months. (1) A traditional subject showing a solitary, usually male, figure tending the fields, domesticating animals, or struggling to fend off the ...
Attributing influence: the problem of female patronage in fifteenth-century Florence.
Mar 01, 2008; Solum, Stefanie ... Among the Florentine Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale's broad holdings of fifteenth-century illuminated manuscripts is a small, striking codex catalogued as BNCF, Magliabechiano VII, 49. Its sole text is a Lombard Vita di San Giovanni Battista dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of ...
Regionalist radio: Thomas Hart Benton on Art for Your Sake.(Cover story)
Mar 01, 2008; Mazow, Leo G. ... A remarkably high percentage of work by the American artist Thomas Hart Benton depicts musical performance, instruments, singing, and clapping. An even larger group takes as its subject the production of sound in nonmusical contexts, by way of meteorological phenomena, sound-receiving and ...
Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; Harmansah, Omur ... MARIAN H. FELDMAN Diplomacy by Design: Luxury Arts and an "International Style" in the Ancient Near East, 1400-1200 BCE Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 278 pp.; 18 color ills., 77 b/w. $60.00 Marian Feldman's copiously illustrated, exquisitely ...
Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; Dale, Thomas ... MEYER SCHAPIRO Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Ed. and intro. Linda Seidel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 277 pp.; 70 b/w ills. $40.00 A decade after his death, Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996), the charismatic ...
The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; Grabar, Oleg ... ERNST J. GRUBE AND JEREMY JOHNS The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina Genoa: Bruschettini Foundation for Islamic and Asian Art; New York: East-West Foundation, 2005. 518 pp.; 200 color ills., 762 b/w. $195.00 The Cappella Palatina in Palermo, ...
Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2008; Lobel, Michael ... REBECCA ZURIER Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 418 pp.; 12 color ills., 149 b/w. $49.95 Picturing the City makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ashcan school, ...
Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses.(Critical essay)
Mar 01, 2008; O'Brian, John ... CAROLINE A. JONES Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 534 pp.; 23 color ills., 126 b/w. $45.00 One of the principal themes explored in this expansive book is the ...
Recent books in the arts (July-September 2007).
Mar 01, 2008 ... ABBOTT, BRETT, ED. Edward Weston's Book of Nudes. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Center for Creative Photography, 2007. 96 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780892369034) ADAMS, NICHOLAS. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: SOM since ...
Reviews online (July-September 2007).(caa.reviews by College Art Association)
Mar 01, 2008 ... 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 in the URL http://www.caareviews.org and use the advanced search ...