Description
Book SynopsisThis work studies the art of interpreting.
Table of ContentsContents
1. Palaeovisions: Interpreting the Imagery of Ice-Age Europe
- Margaret Conkey, University of California at Berkeley
2. The Strength of Columns and the Weakness of Theory
- John Onians, University of East Anglia
3. Rape or Restitution of the Past? Interpreting Spolia - Dale Kinney, Bryn mawr College
4. Holy Images and Other Images
- David Freedberg, Columbia University
5. Discourses of Representation in 10th and 11th Century China
- Martin J. Powers, The University of Michigan
6. Toward an Aesthetic of Persian Painting
- Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
7. Christ in His Beauty and Pain, Concepts of Body and Image in an Age of Transition (Late Middle Ages & Renaissance)
- Gerhard Wolf, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
9. Imitation, Representation and the Study of Garden Art
- John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania
10. Jack Bush and Clement Greenberg: The Empire and the Limits of Theory
- Natasha Staller, Amherst College
11. Allegorical Gardens of Desire in Modernity: A Gendered Perspective
- Gisela Ecker, Universität Paderborn
12. Wining and Dining on the Temple of Athena at Assos
- Bonna Wescoat, Emory University
13. Interpreting Kandinsky's Iconography: Sources in Ethnography and Shamanism
- Peg Weiss, Syracuse University
