Synopses & Reviews
Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.
Review
The quintessential Benjamin gesture of Volume 3 is the 1936 selection of letters by a wide assortment of figures from the German Romantic era, together with his brief, meticulously sympathetic commentaries, contained in German Men and Women É It is the story primarily of friendships amidst the passages and misfortunes of time, and of ideas as the substance of friendship: Their exchange becomes the fabric that connects one individual to another, and binds each to their precarious, uncertain lives.
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Wright surveys the labyrinth over centuries with ears unplugged, listening for the music it inspired É The Maze and the Warrior is quite a book.
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This is at once the most broadly thoughtful and specifically useful book I've read in the field of public management.
Table of Contents
Editorial: The Abject of Art History
Joseph Leo Koerner
"To Make Women Weep": Ugly Art as "Feminine" and the Origins of Modern Aesthetics
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
The Renaissance Tattoo
Juliet Fleming
Blood in Flux, Sanctity at Issue
Joan R. Branham
The Mouth of the Komo
Sarah Brett-Smith
Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life
William Pietz
The Constitution of Bohemia
Joseph Rykwert
Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy and the Hermeneutics of Shadow
Victor I. Stoichita
"Our Own Imperfect Knowledge": Petrus Camper and the Search For an "Ideal Form"
Nicholas Grindle
Lectures and Discussions
Redefinitions of Abjection in Contemporary Performances of the Female Body
Christine Ross
Documents
A Critique: Pevsner on Modernity (1938)
Meyer Schapiro
Translated by David Craven
A Series of Interviews (July 15, 1992-January 22, 1995)
Meyer Schapiro and Lillian Milgram Schapiro with David Craven