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Title Page The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 106, No. 1, 2024)
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Editorial Board and Information for Authors The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 106, No. 1, 2024)
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Message from CAA Executive Director The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26
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Table of Contents The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 106, No. 1, 2024)
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Editor’s Note The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Christy Anderson
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The Materials of Shame: Decoration, Masculinity, and the Birth of Modern Interior Design The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 John Potvin
This essay revisits well-known figures, theories, and representations alongside new ones to thread together a narrative that betrays my dissatisfaction with the current state of design history. My ...
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Queering the Minimalist Interior The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Timothy M. Rohan
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Welcome to the Gayborhood: Beacon Hill Between the Wars The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kevin D. Murphy
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“Interior Decorator is Dead” The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Alice T. Friedman
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Sewn in Place: Gender, Materiality, and Mapmaking in the Early United States The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Elizabeth Eager
Focused on four early nineteenth-century embroidered maps of the US capital in Washington, DC, the following analysis situates the maps’ appropriation of printed material in the context of early mo...
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The Fragility of Solace: Pothos and Memory in Late Roman Gold-Glass Portraiture The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Rachel Catherine Patt
Using a rarely-explored format of Roman portraiture, the gold-glass medallion, I argue that the yearning desire for someone absent can illuminate the force of intimacy behind such small-scale priva...
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Constable as a Voyage of Discovery The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Damian Taylor
C. R. Leslie’s influential biography of John Constable highlighted that his friend’s artistic strengths stemmed from his unprecedented geographical “confinement.” The unpublished draft preface, how...
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Splendeurs des oasis d’Ouzbékistan/The Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases, and Sur les routes de Samarcande. Merveilles de soie et d’or/On the Roads to Samarkand: Wonders of Silk and Gold, by Yannick Lintz and Rocco Rante (eds.) The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Tatsiana Zhurauliova
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The Art of Cloth in Mughal India, by Sylvia Houghteling; and Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, by Amanda Phillips The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Sumru Belger Krody
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Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760–1910, by Holly Shaffer; and The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century, by Dipti Khera The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Santhi Kavuri-Bauer
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Cold War Camera, by Thy Phu, Erina Duganne, and Andrea Noble (eds.) The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Delinda Collier
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Title Page The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial Board and Information for Authors The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2023)
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Message from CAA Executive Director The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2023)
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Material Ciphers: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s Concrete Conceptualism and the Informational Imaginaries of the Cold War The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Christopher Williams-Wynn
The “dematerialization” thesis has long animated studies of conceptualism. Stemming from Western social formations and information theory, it is dialectically related to cybernetic theories from Ea...
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Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Daniel M. Zolli
Throughout his career, Donatello (1383/6–1464) produced sculptures with surfaces that simulated a more precious material than the one underneath. Typically motivated by an ambition to reproduce anc...
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Table of Contents The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2023)
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Reviewing Reviews in The Art Bulletin The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Stephanie Porras
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Bayard’s Boutique The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jillian Lerner
This essay pursues a close reading of Hippolyte Bayard’s Boutique d’épicier (1843), a photographic depiction of a Parisian shopfront that combines still life, street scene, and stratified social po...
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“What Means This Carnage?”: Civil War Soldiers’ Bodies, Recuperative Projects, and the Army Medical Museum The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Julia B. Rosenbaum
This essay is about bodies in war and a bone collection. In 1862 during the American Civil War, the US War Department established the Army Medical Museum with the mandate to collect morbid anatomy ...
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Visualizing “National Art”: O Sech’ang’s Art Collection and Connoisseurship against Japanese Colonialism The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Ja Won Lee
O Sech’ang embarked on an ambitious cultural project by acquiring impressive numbers of Korean painting and calligraphy during the Japanese colonial period (1910–1945). This article examines how O ...
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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola, by Cécile Fromont The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Amara Solari
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2023)
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A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, by Tina Campt; and White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness, by Nicholas Mirzoeff The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 crystal am nelson
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Luxury After the Terror, by Iris Moon The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Katie Hornstein
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The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles, by Susanna Phillips Newbury The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Patricia A. Morton
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 4, 2023)
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Title Page The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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The Collaborative Essay The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Christy Anderson
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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Maintenance Work and the Long Life of Materials in Medieval Art The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Jessica Barker
This article explores an important aspect of artworks overlooked by art historians: their gradual material deterioration and the measures taken to slow this process of decay. It focuses on one extr...
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Archaic Sculpture and Archaisms of Gender: Rethinking the “Brother and Sister Stele” The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Seth Estrin
The study of Archaic Greek sculpture has long been shaped by an axiomatic yet rarely articulated belief: that differences between figures carved in stone reflect biological differences between male...
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The Prince’s Prosthetic Body: Orthopedic Armor and Material Self-Fashioning in Sixteenth-Century Europe The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Felix Jäger
Commonly seen to display military prowess or chivalric virtue, parade armor of the sixteenth century here is considered for its impact on the wearer’s own physiology and psychology. Through juxtapo...
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Jacopo Bassano and the Flood of Feltre The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 James Pilgrim
Painted in 1576, Jacopo Bassano’s The Flood of the Colmeda commemorates a deluge that swept through the small town of Feltre, in the mountains to the north of Venice, in 1564. Drawing attention to ...
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Is it Ours? Art, Copyright, and Public Interest, by Martha Buskirk The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Heather Diack
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History by Edward S. Cooke, Jr. The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Noémie Etienne
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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Contents The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil, by Adele Nelson; Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art, by Patricio del Real; Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires, by Ana María León; and Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil, by Adrian Anagnost The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Aleca Le Blanc
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics, by Cajetan Iheka The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sria Chatterjee
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial Board and Information for Authors The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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Message from CAA Executive Director The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 3, 2023)
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The Colossus and the Sphinx: Two Cartographies of Africa in Nineteenth-Century Britain The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Ariel Kline
This article compares G. F. Watts’s unfinished portrait of the mining magnate and imperialist Cecil John Rhodes (1898) with the artist’s earlier “portrait” of the Sphinx at Giza (1887). When he inv...
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Title Page The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Board and Information for Authors The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2023)
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Roman Gladiator Knives: Objectification, Mascotting, and the Material Culture of Sport in Ancient Rome The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Maggie L. Popkin
Abstract Roman pocketknives carved in the form of gladiators offer vital insight into the ambiguous status of the athletes they represent and how ancient consumers related to them. Gladiator knives objectified male gladiators as a key site for embodying and grappling with Roman conceptions of masculinity, sex, and enslavement. The knives reflect the popularity of gladiatorial combat as a sport in the
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Message from CAA Executive Director The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2023)
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Table of Contents The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11
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The Big Picture The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11
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New Histories of the Papunya Boards, New Beginnings for the Western Desert Painting Movement The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Darren Jorgensen
Abstract The origins of the Western Desert painting movement lie in the Central Australian settlement of Papunya in 1971 and 1972. The story of these origins has until recently been dominated by the story of Geoffrey Bardon who assisted the early artists while employed as a schoolteacher there. Bardon and subsequent historians have focused on the experience of the Pintupi, who came into Papunya from
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Mechanical Technologies and Ancient Sculpture The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Emma Payne
Abstract This paper traces the idea of the “mechanical” as applied to ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. Use of the term is tracked from the eighteenth century onward and connected with the development of sculpturing machines during this period and their impact on the scholarly interpretation of making ancient stone sculpture. The disparagement of Roman marbles took off just as mechanical copying techniques
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Uneasy Articulations: Magnus Hirschfeld, Art, and Sexual Science in Early Twentieth-Century Germany The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Camilla Smith
Abstract This article explores the relationship between sexual science (sexology) and art. It focuses on the Berlin-based physician, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), one of its leading proponents, whose complex use of reproductions and references to art historical sources, warrant attention. It examines the role of art in Hirschfeld’s clinical questionnaires, the psychosexual artworks of his patients
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The Road to Buenos Aires Is Paved with Good Design: Worldmaking Fantasies and the Latin American Industrial Design Exhibition The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Patricio Del Real
ABSTRACT In 1970, Argentinian industrialists and cultural entrepreneurs sought to harness industrial design to reenergize a stalled economy. In collaboration with the International Council and the Department of Architecture and Design of the Museum of Modern Art, they worked to bring to Buenos Aires more than 400 objects of MoMA’s design collection. Spearheaded by Emilio Ambasz, the exhibition 20th
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The Ka‘ba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House, by Simon O’Meara; Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria, by Richard J. A. McGregor; and Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, by Qaisra M. Khan The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Finbarr Barry Flood
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2023)
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Image Encounters: Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History, by Lisa Trever The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Julia Guernsey
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2023)
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Architectural Guide to Sub-Saharan Africa, by Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai (eds.) The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Huda Tayob
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 2, 2023)
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Title Page The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-02-27
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2023)
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Editorial Board and Information for Authors The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-02-27
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2023)
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Message from CAA Executive Director The Art Bulletin Pub Date : 2023-02-27
Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2023)