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RES 31 Spring 1997

The abject

 

JOSEPH LEO KOERNER
The abject of art history

JEFFREY F. HAMBURGER
"To make women weep": ugly art as "feminine" and the origins of modern aesthetics

JULIET FLEMING
The Renaissance tattoo

JOAN R. BRANHAM
Blood in flux, sanctity at issue

SARAH BRETT-SMITH
The mouth of the Komo

WILLIAM PIETZ
Death of the deodand: accursed objects and the money value of human life

JOSEPH RYKWERT
The constitution of Bohemia

VICTOR I. STOICHITA
Johann Caspar Lavater’s Essays on Physiognomy and the hermeneutics of shadow

NICHOLAS GRINDLE
"Our own imperfect knowledge": Petrus Camper and the search for an "ideal form"

CHRISTINE ROSS
Redefinitions of abjection in contemporary performances of the female body

MEYER SCHAPIRO
A critique: Pevsner on modernity (1938), translated by David Craven

MEYER SCHAPIRO and LILLIAN MILGRAM SCHAPIRO with DAVID CRAVEN
A series of interviews (July 15, 1992– January 22, 1995)

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