"The essays published in this volume were first presented at a symposium celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art"--Introd. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
I stagger from this temple of the loftiest pleasures with a splitting head : encounters in the space of art / Jeffrey Weiss. Knowledge as cultural biography : lives of Mesopotamian monuments / Marian H. Feldman -- When art is writing and writing, art : graphic communication in preconquest Mexico / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Reading art without writing : interpreting Chimú architectural sculpture / Joanne Pillsbury -- Islamic identities and Islamic art : inscribing the Qurʼan in twelfth-century Afghanistan / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Concepts of the portrait in the Islamic lands, c.1300-1600 / David J. Roxburgh -- Rethinking East Asian tombs : a methodological proposal / Wu Hung -- Urakami Gyokudō : an intoxicology of Japanese literati painting / Yukio Lippit -- Importance of vernacular style in Renaissance art : the invention of Simone Martini's Maestà in the Palazzo Communale in Siena / Charles Dempsey -- Simone Martini, Petrarch, and the vernacular poetics of early Renaissance art / C. Jean Campbell -- Holy redundancy and echo in the Lateran Basilica in Rome / Joseph Connors -- Simon Vouet's Hesperus and the mythopoetics of praise / Louise Rice -- Taking Dutch art seriously : now and then / Svetlana Alpers -- Taking Dutch art seriously : now and next? / Mariët Westermann -- Taking Dutch art seriously : discussion -- Image matters : the case of Boucher / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- Interpreting portraits : images of society or the self? / Phillipe Bordes -- Figures of sublimity in Orientalist painting / Marc Gotlieb -- American art history after 11/2 / Michael Leja -- Museum tales of twentieth-century art / Hal Foster -- I stagger from this temple of the loftiest pleasures with a splitting head : encounters in the space of art / Jeffrey Weiss.
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