Stories Collection

  1. Jessica L. Darraby. Deerfield, Ill.: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995.1,314 pp.; loose-...
  2. The universal and developmental presumptions of art history are nowhere better expres...
  3. For decades the Northwestern University Department of Art History offered a one-year,...
  4. In our discipline the survey represents the epitome of contested territory. It promis...
  5. At the University of Vermont, we offer a two-semester sequence designed to introduce ...
  6. Malcolm Daniel. Essay by Barry Bergdoll. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 294 pp.; 91...
  7. Steven Z. Levine. The Modernist Myth of the Self. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres...
  8. Today the word survey can scarcely be understood apart from the writings of Michel Fo...
  9. At Oberlin College art historians have struggled for mole than a decade to find the p...
  10. It seems to me that the handicap of the available textbooks (even the newest) is thei...
  11. One solution to the outmoded "banking" concept of learning i professors make deposits...
  12. Richard Cork. A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War. New Haven: Yale Univ...
  13. Shifra M. Goldman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 520 pp.; 97 b/w ills. ...
  14. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Chris Bu...
  15. From Jan Vermeer to Mark Tansey, artists have produced a rich and varied countersurve...
  16. This brief paper concerns a new program that is being implemented at the School of th...
  17. I have taught the traditional survey of ancient and medieval art for some time and ha...
  18. At the University of Wyoming, we are trying to reestablish within the context of the ...
  19. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, eds. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, 320 pp.; 118 ...
  20. Bruce Altshuler. Modern New York: Abbeville, 1994. 128 pp.; 48 color ills., 65 b/w. $...
  21. We are all familiar with the idea that there was a Greek "original" and a Roman "copy...
  22. John Russell. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.192 pp.; 37 color ills., 138 b/w. $11.9...
  23. James Cahill. Bampton Lectures in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994....
  24. Laurie Schneider Adams. Art and Psychoanalysis. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. 366 pp...
  25. "I didn't know the Getty bought modern art," is fairly typical of the response to the...
  26. It needs a particular courage not to overcome the past but to live with it still. - G...
  27. Andrew Sinclair. His Life and Violent Times. New York: Crown, 1993. 368 pp.; 10 color...
  28. Julia K. Murray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 272 pp.; 10 color ills....
  29. Eighty-five years ago Freud made his initial excursion in a psychoanalytic exploratio...
  30. Edgar Degas both launched and concluded his career as a public sculptor with only one...
  31. I did not know what the tapestries which ornamented the chapel of Our Lady meant and ...
  32. Ernst van Alphen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.208 pp.; 15 color ills., ...
  33. Kathlyn Maureen Liscomb. A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting...
  34. Andean tapestries are impressive for bold design, brilliant color, and exquisite craf...
  35. The intriguing story of the early years of the Society for the Protection of Ancient ...
  36. A large literary corpus has arisen around Francis Bacon reflecting in its size the co...
  37. Like his previous book, The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century...
  38. Intervene in the normal aging process? In my case? There is not much holy about a bal...
  39. Until the late eighteenth century, picture restoration was an obscure and marginal bu...
  40. Francis M. Naumann. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 256 pp.; 42 color ills., 178 b/w...
  41. Of the qualities that we identify as specifically twentieth century in nature, the wo...
  42. From his earliest involvement with media production in the 1980s, Hopi video- and fil...
  43. Paper Tiger has been successfully clawing away at the mass media for nearly fifteen y...
  44. As though . . . the simulation of real life were not part of real life! - Jacques Der...
  45. Sadie Benning is one of the handful of North American independent video producers of ...
  46. When asked five years ago to describe her early work in the genre of multimedia, Mary...
  47. In considering video art presentation in museums, and in particular at the Whitney Mu...
  48. The anthology - one of the finest inventions of literacy - is now having its life ext...
  49. I was making my way in search of adventures, fully armed as a knight should be, when ...
  50. Pepon Osorio is a mixed-media artist whose work is grounded in Latino popular culture...
  51. It is rare when you can draw a line around a thing and call it a history. Often obstr...
  52. The anthology - one of the finest inventions of literacy - is now having its life ext...
  53. Like his recent deconstructionist videos, which appropriate and manipulate brief pass...
  54. Only three years ago arts advocates were breathing a sigh of relief at Bill Clinton's...
  55. The challenge of preserving video is a fundamental issue for the media arts field. Cu...
  56. In 1993 for the Venice Biennale, Nam June Paik initially proposed to title his exhibi...
  57. It is probably true that, in the United States at least, the museum is the cultural i...
  58. As though . . . the simulation of real life were not part of real life! - Jacques Der...
  59. Futurism remains the least understood of early twentieth-century art movements, large...
  60. Costumes Constructed and Eaten and its companion performance Robert Kushner and Frien...
  61. In the winter of 1917, a few weeks after the Bolsheviks had taken Moscow in several d...
  62. The visual formula of the Baroque still life is: drapery, producing folds of air or h...
  63. Several months before the 1988 Degas retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
  64. The five projects in this section were conceived and created specifically for this is...
  65. In Berlin, as in Paris, London, and New York, skirts got shorter in the 1920s, exposi...
  66. The recent tendency among contemporary artists to represent clothing as abstracted fr...
  67. Intrigued by the disquieting scission between politics and art historical scholarship...
  68. There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; . ...
  69. In 1924 Sonia Delaunay began commercial production of printed textiles under her own ...
  70. The surest indication that what was once called revisionist art history, with its emp...
  71. Much has been written about the dress-reform movements in England, Germany, and Ameri...
  72. In 1967 Magdalena Abakanowicz began the monumental fiber works that established her r...
  73. For Barnett Newman, as for the other mythmakers of Abstract Expressionism, the 1940s ...
  74. Tattoo might be considered the ultimate form of "clothing" as art. Trendsetters today...
  75. "If it were not for the audacity and impetuosity of the Greeks before us who absconde...
  76. One of the attractions of the San Francisco Bay Area is its thriving alternative art ...
  77. A recent exhibition at the Musee Marmottan brought before an enthusiastic Parisian pu...
  78. "ANY OF THESE MEN MAY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE RAPISTS." "Notice: These men are Poten...
  79. THE COURTNEY COLLECTION i began Collecting when I was a very young Child. the Collect...
  80. As a teaching sociologist, with a few close artist friends who like to talk and to ea...
  81. Hal Foster's book is an interesting example of the charms and pitfalls of applying "t...
  82. Clint. Auteur? Cultural critic? Masculine and patriarchal deconstructionist? Feminist...
  83. In 1987, during a visit to the Charles Demuth retrospective at the Whitney Museum of ...
  84. In my small town we sometimes joke about the local combination Bike Shop-Restaurant-G...
  85. Since the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and other organizations devoted to pres...
  86. Another View from a Contemporary Window The plaster cast of the two over-life-size re...
  87. Art and the Zeitgeist The computer and digital technologies are increasingly defining...
  88. The circumstances of one's life become embedded in the gut, and from there they call ...
  89. The new age Confidence man cleans his weapon after the brutal consummation. In the cu...
  90. In one of these books about contemporary art, the theoretical tail threatens to wag t...
  91. Michael Leja's book is a densely written and refreshingly speculative view of Abstrac...
  92. Soon after our country began its groping advance through post-Soviet history toward a...
  93. Russian photography today, like all of Russian culture, is in a transitional state. T...
  94. During the 1920s the collective efforts of leftist Soviet critics and photographers (...
  95. The Russian artists represented here prepared photographic projects especially for th...
  96. In 1961 the president of the USSR Union of Journalists and chief editor of Pravda, Pa...
  97. While the presentation and discussion of photography has made some progress since the...
  98. Editor's note: What follows is a challenge by Viktor Misiano to young postconceptual ...
  99. Since perestroika and especially since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the polit...
  100. Until recently Soviet museums rejected the classics of Soviet avant-garde photography...
  101. It is customary to begin an essay on an artist by stating his or her year of birth. T...
  102. It is curious to be a heterosexual female writing about photography that has helped t...
  103. The institutions of American culture have defined Russian photography as a newborn. O...
  104. The new role of photography on the Russian art scene can only be understood if contra...
  105. In observing the changing political parameters of global reality in the late 1980s, t...
  106. The Hindu temples of northern India built before the coming of Islam form one of seve...
  107. Photographic organizations have existed in Russia for a hundred years.(1) Their histo...
  108. As part of an American-Soviet cultural exchange that took place in Kiev in 1976, Davi...
  109. Great ideas are nonsense passing through man's mind. Heine The absurd depicted with t...
  110. This is the first exhibition in any language to study the rise, development, spiritua...
  111. Our complex civilization has found its crisis in the contradiction that exists betwee...
  112. By the end of the 1950s, Abstract Expressionism had clearly "triumphed" over all othe...
  113. Sculptors draw for as wide a variety of reasons as do painters, but the relationship ...
  114. One of the most prominent explicators of the relationship between modern Western and ...
  115. The 1994 fifty-year anniversary of the D day invasion of Normandy, the success of the...
  116. During the 1950s and 1960s approximately one thousand new synagogues were consecrated...
  117. Conventional accounts of Claire Falkenstein's achievements as a sculptor describe her...
  118. On Saturday, December 9, 1972, about three weeks before his death, I spent the aftern...
  119. This issue of the Art Journal focuses on postwar sculpture in Europe and America, a t...
  120. Is Louise Bourgeois's sculpture of the late forties and fifties in any way political?...
  121. For a period during the postwar years in Paris, the sculpture of Germaine Richier (19...
  122. The publication date of this journal, December 1994, coincides with the fiftieth anni...
  123. As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, literature on post...
  124. No, I don't think I shall perish. Etty Hillesum, The Diaries, 190. Barnett Newman's m...
  125. On May 14, 1940, Nazi warplanes bombed Rotterdam, decimating its commercial center; 6...
  126. The career of the Japanese American sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) w...
  127. In 1962 Joseph Cornell wrote about Lee Bontecou: In other days there were the "mouth ...
  128. The 1993-94 exhibition season in Washington, D.C., featured two major exhibitions of ...
  129. The book of documents on German Expressionist art, edited by Rose-Carol Washton Long,...
  130. George Andrews, my father, has always been what our neighbors called "peculiar." And ...
  131. John Coplans was born in London in 1920 and raised in South Africa. He has soldiered ...
  132. Although best known for the open-form, welded sculpture that linked him to contempora...
  133. Anne Noggle was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1922. She came to art when she was in ...
  134. Experience has afforded this author the opportunity to be exposed to some very talent...
  135. In his essay "Reflections on Wallace Stevens," the influential critic and poet Randal...
  136. Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop has been a crucially important feature of the Ne...
  137. Dorothy Dehner's personal history has laid the groundwork for her philosophical tempe...
  138. Age has its rewards for Howard Finster--God's "stranger from another world" and Ameri...
  139. Pablita Velarde was born in 1918 at Santa Clara Pueblo, an ancient village in New Mex...
  140. Every artist should have a last will and testament that disposes of his or her works ...
  141. In no other place nor time did one witness a phenomenon so sudden and so complex: nev...
  142. Born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1914, Rudy Burckhardt moved to New York at the age of ...
  143. Born in 1899 in Debrecen, Hungary, Sari Dienes, nee Chylinska, was the oldest person ...
  144. Antonio Frasconi's parents emigrated from Arezzo to Buenos Aires, where he was born i...
  145. When I was sixty-five years old, I wrote a book on artistic creativity in old age.(1)...
  146. How much of Venetian sixteenth-century painting is owed to the art and mind of Titian...
  147. Joan Marter's book appears at the right time. The Guggenheim Museum's Picasso and the...
  148. Although she has had no shortage of acknowledgment during her long and productive car...
  149. Lamar Dodd was born in Fairburn, Georgia, in 1909 and attended elementary and seconda...
  150. In the more than one thousand drawings done since she took her first art class in 197...
  151. Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi's 1963 event score provides an apt directive for an initial plu...
  152. You would like to hear how it is in old age? Certainly, not much is known about that ...
  153. George Cohen became known in the forties and fifties for his paintings and board cons...
  154. Ruth Duckworth is an internationally known ceramicist and sculptor who has lived in C...
  155. George McNeil was born in New York in 1908. Of the same generation as the Abstract Ex...
  156. When we talk about aging another word keeps asserting itself. The other word, the wor...
  157. Mark C. Taylor, Preston S. Parish Third Century Professor of Religion at Williams Col...
  158. Clyster syringes, used to administer enemas, appear with considerable frequency in se...
  159. When Henry Somm and Alfred Jarry died in Paris in 1907, they were penniless and forgo...
  160. Since the decade preceding the 1989 Bicentennial, there has been an ongoing boom in p...
  161. These two recent volumes are most welcome additions to the bibliography of nineteenth...
  162. From the opening days of the July Monarchy, the regime of Louis-Philippe was found to...
  163. Marcel Duchamp spoke to me, during the course of the Second World War (traveling betw...
  164. Since the decade preceding the 1989 Bicentennial, there has been an ongoing boom in p...
  165. Scatology in Western art of the post-Renaissance period has generally been discussed ...
  166. To a working artist, the prospect of broad categorizations that tend to organize art-...
  167. Since the decade preceding the 1989 Bicentennial, there has been an ongoing boom in p...
  168. Harriet Senie's incompletely titled book (better would be Contemporary Public Sculptu...
  169. As evidenced by the controversy surrounding Andres Serrano's 1987 photograph Piss Chr...
  170. In her essay "Perversion and Universal Law" the French psychoanalyst Janine Chassegue...
  171. First produced in 1926, Helen Gardner's Art through the Ages has been thoroughly rewr...
  172. In 1984 the American folklorist Alan Dundes published a provocative analysis of Germa...
  173. Zola's frankness and political engagement contrasted sharply with the rarefied prose ...
  174. Richard F. Townsend, editor. The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes. Munich...
  175. These two recent volumes are most welcome additions to the bibliography of nineteenth...
  176. In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France the sketch was a frequent sub...
  177. In 1838 the American painter Thomas Cole wrote a letter to his friend Asher B. Durand...
  178. Two of Romanticism's ascendant themes were the hope for a transcendental death--the p...
  179. The exhibition and catalogue Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers...
  180. During the past two decades the Western art world has offered evidence of a growing c...
  181. No one, I am certain, will ever define Romanticism clearly, but then, no one will eve...
  182. As guest editor of the artists' pages for this Art Journal issue on Romanticism, I ha...
  183. In the first book, an art historian surveys the history of art history, its luminarie...
  184. I want to die and in Russian soil they will bury me. I'll never study French, I won't...
  185. "The friends are forever involved in the 'family photo,'" a line by the poet Gerard M...
  186. Max Ernst, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch were all present at the First Dada Art Fa...
  187. Long seen as a product of crises, French painting of the 1880s and 1890s has consiste...
  188. When Hans Arp (1886--1966) and Sophie Taeuber (1889--1943) met at the threshold of th...
  189. Notes from two panels at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York, on collaborations between...
  190. Art historians have been seeking to meet the gaze of Olympia for years--of Olympia, E...
  191. Long seen as a product of crises, French painting of the 1880s and 1890s has consiste...
  192. In any case I wish him every success in his courageous undertaking. And I am ever pre...
  193. The case of the book publisher who engineers collaborations between artists and write...
  194. Art historians have been seeking to meet the gaze of Olympia for years--of Olympia, E...
  195. Interest in Chinese art has been growing in recent years, and much new scholarship in...
  196. When Debra Bricker Balken curated a Philip Guston/Clark Coolidge exhibition for the B...
  197. "How can I explain my love and respect for the poets who have enriched my life?" Grac...
  198. Art historians have been seeking to meet the gaze of Olympia for years--of Olympia, E...