Books received | Art History Supplement, vol. 2, no.1, January 2012

 

 

Christiansen, Keith and Weppelmann, Stefan (ed.) (2011), The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini, (Exhibition, Bode Museum, Berlin, 25/8 – 20/11/11, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21/12/11 – 18/3/12), New Heaven and London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, distributed by Yale University Press. (ISBN 978-0-300-17591-2).

Duffy, Eamon (2011), Ten Popes Who Shook the World, New Heaven and London: Yale University Press. (ISBN 978-0-300-17688-9).

Hal, Foster (2012), The first Pop age: painting and subjectivity in the art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter and Ruscha, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. (ISBN 978-0-691-15138-0).

Kemp, Martin (2004), Leonardo (2011), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0-19-958335-5).

Kemp, Martin (2011), Christ to Coke: How Image becomes Icon, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (ISBN 978-0-19-958111-5).

Pelikan, Jaroslav (1990) Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons, Judith Herrin (intr.) (2011), Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. (ISBN 978-0-691-14125-1).

Ribeiro, Aileen (2011), Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art, New Heaven and London: Yale University Press. (ISBN 978-0-300-12486-6).

Syson, Luke (2011), Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (Exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery, London, 9/11/11–5/2/12), London: National Gallery Company, distributed by Yale University Press.  (ISBN 978-1-85709-491-6).

 

 

 

CFP: History of conservation

This is the open call for papers for the next Art History Supplement (AHS). The proposed general theme, but not limited to, is History of conservation.  Submission deadline 20 February 2012.

 
Aspects of conservation in theory and in practice. Conservation of material and immaterial, conservation of tangible and intangible culture, of paintings and buildings, natural places and sites. Conservation of personal, public and oral, or not, histories, or else when conservation becomes commemoration.

 
AHS publishes material, dealing with all time periods, methodologies, media, techniques and debates within the field of art history. Contributions from any other science (social or not) corresponding to material culture are also welcome.

 

 

 

TOC: Art History Supplement, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2012

TOC: Art History Supplement, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2012

ISSN 2046-9225

Table of Contents
01. Happy he who, like Ulysses … , by Joachim du Bellay

02. Works of art and art criticisms, by Max Simon Nordau

03. “To spatialize time is a faculty shared by snails and by historians”: George Kubler and Henri Focillon, by Annamaria Ducci

04. Archival research and qualitative analysis in art history: a case study, by Chara Kolokytha

05. Books received

06. Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude (14 March – 5 June 2012, Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, London, UK)

07. Next issue; CFP: History of conservation