Number 29: December 2023
Great women art historians: Guest edited by Heidrun Rosenberg (Vienna)
General papers
Xiangming Chen (Oxford), ‘Curators of China knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan’ 29/XC1
Elisa Galardi (University of Pennsylvania), ‘” Unframing” Byzantine ivories: painterliness, reliefs, and the place of Byzantine art in early twentieth-century German scholarship’ 29/EG1
Anna Grasskamp (University of Oslo), ‘Reframing the history of proletarian art: Sino-Japanese relations in modern woodcut print culture’ 29/AG1
Joseph Hammond (American University of Beirut), ‘Vasari and portraiture: function, aesthetics and propaganda’ 29/JH1
Andrew Hopkins (University of L’Aquila), ‘Palladio drawings in Britain: half a century of research’ 29/AH1
Kerr Houston (Maryland Institute College of Art), ‘An historiographic contextualization of Leo Steinberg’s “Observations in the Cerasi Chapel”’ 29/KH1
Matilde Mateo (Syracuse University), ‘The artist as historian-politician: Romantic historicism, art, and architecture in the performance of cultural nationalism in Pérez Villaamil and Escosura’s España artística y monumental (1842-50)’ 29/MM1
William McCrory (Independent, Jakarta), ‘Unreconcilable contradictions: the poetry of Aditya Prakash’ 29/WMcC1
Hiram Woodward (Independent, Walters Art Museum retired), ‘Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Benoy Kumar Sarkar, and the Śukranīti’ 29/HW1
Documents
Ambra D’Antone (Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice), ‘“Karagöz is ours”: İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s cultural revivalism and the Long Turkish Modernity’ 29/ADA1
David Peters Corbett (Courtauld Institute), ‘Exile and subjectivity: words and images in the writings of Sadakichi Hartmann’ 29/DPC1
Conference report
Łukasz Żuchowski and Emma Żuchowska (University of Warsaw), Conference report: ‘Art history and its institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Empire’ 28th-30th September 2023 29/LEZ1
Reviews
Francesca Billiani (Manchester University), ‘Baroquemania: a counter-rationalist history of Italian art’. Review of: Laura Moure Cecchini, Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and The Construction of National Identity, 1898-1954, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021, 288 pp., 93 col. Plates, £80, ISBN 9781526153173. 29/FB1
Matthew Bowman (Suffolk University), ‘American-type art criticism’. Review of: Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States by Stephen Moonie, Routledge, 2022, 206pp. 10 colour and 30 b. & w. illus. ISBN: 9780367565411, £120. 29/MB1
Alison Clarke (Independent, Northumbria), ‘Mein Leben and beyond: Wilhelm Bode, commerce and art’. Review of: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market: Connoisseurship, Networking and Control of the Marketplace, edited by Joanna Smalcerz, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, 292pp., 60 col. illus., €135.00, ISBN: 9789004521902 (hdbk), ISBN: 9789004532458 (e-book). 29/AC1
A. A. Donohue (Bryn Mawr), ‘Iconotropy: everything or nothing?’. Review of: Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World, Routledge Research in Art and Religion, edited by Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, New York and London: Routledge, 2022, 212 pp., 49 b. & w. illus. $136.00 hdbk, ISBN 978-1-032-03065-4; $42.36 ebk, ISBN 978-1-003-18650-2, DOI: 10.4324/9781003186502. 29/AA1
Stephen Adéyẹmí Fọlárànmí (Rhodes University, South Africa), ‘The language of beauty in African art’. Review of: The Language of Beauty in African Art, Edited by Constantine Petridis. Contributions by Yaelle Biro, Herbert M Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Constantine Petridis, Wilfried van Damme and Susan Vogel. New Haven and London: Yale UP 2022, 356 Pages, 9.00 x 12.70 in, 315 color + 30 b-w illus. ISBN 9780300260045 (hbk); 9780300269918 (ebook). $65.00. 29/SAF1
David Hemsoll (University of Birmingham), ‘The ‘purification of the personality of Sanmicheli’. Review of: Il Michele Sanmicheli di Antonio Morassi: La tesi all’Università di Vienna e una monografia perduta (1916-1920) by Giulio Zavatta, Treviso: Zel, 2022, 230pp, 49 col. Illus. ISBN 9788887186307 €25.00. 29/DH1
Hans Christian Hönes (University of Aberdeen), ‘Authority and Authenticity in Art Writing’. Review of: Matthias Krüger, Léa Kuhn, Ulrich Pfisterer (Eds): Pro Domo. Kunstgeschichte in eigener Sache, Paderborn: Brill Fink 2021. ISBN: 978-3-8467-6506-7, 405 p., €73.83. 29/HCH1
Niamh NicGhabhann (University of Limerick), ‘Another way of telling the story’. Review of: Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader, edited by Fintan Cullen and Róisín Kennedy, Cork: Cork University Press, 2021, 424pp., 21 illus., €39.00 hdbk, £20.70 Kindle, ISBN: 9781782054573. 29/NN1
Wenyi Qian (University of Toronto), ‘Dialogic art history’. Review of: Vessels: The Object as Container, edited by Claudia Brittenham, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 196pp, 78 col. plates, 23 b. & w. illus., £38.49 ISBN 9780198832577; Conditions of Visibility, edited by Richard Neer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 168pp, 66 col. plates, £24.99 ISBN 9780198845560; Figurines: Figuration and the Sense of Scale, edited by Jaś Elsner, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 208pp, 77 col. plates, £36.49 ISBN 9780198861096; Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art, edited by Jaś Elsner, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208pp, 95 col. plates, £65.00 ISBN 9780192845955. Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series. 29/WQ1
A.E. Redgate (Newcastle University), ‘Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk Road’. Review of: Christiane Esche-Ramshorn, East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road: Sharing St. Peter’s, London and New York: Routledge, 2022, 224 pp., 38 b/w figs, 20 col. figs, £120, ISBN 9781409403067. 29/AER1
Diana Reynolds-Cordileone (Point Loma Nazarene University), ‘Complexities, conflicts, and cooperations in a shared cultural space’. Review of: The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, and Nóra Veszprémi,University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, 290pp., 47 b. & w. illus., $99.95 hdbk, $39.95 pbk ISBN 9780271087108. 29/DRC1
Matt Saba (M.I.T. Library), ‘Medieval Islamic objects and the architecture of the mind’. Review of: Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam by Margaret S. Graves, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 339 pp., over 100 col. plates and b. & w. illus., £68 hdbk, Print ISBN 9780190695910, Online ISBN 9780190695941. 29/MS1
Erhan Tamur (Metropolitan Museum of Art), ‘Whither Strukturforschung?’ Review of: The New Vienna School of Art History. Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism by Ian Verstegen, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 29/ET1
Arnold Witte (University of Amsterdam), ‘Neutral observer or institutionalized voice? Willibald Sauerländer and German art history after 1945‘. Review of: Willibald Sauerländer und die Kunstgeschichte, Franz Hefele/Ulrich Pfisterer (eds.), Passau: Dietmar Klinger Verlag 2022 (Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in München 54). ISBN 978-3-86328-186-1 29/AW1
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