The Art Bulletin

Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 480 pp.; 200 b/w ills. $65.00 Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995....

"Egyptomania" is the term that, for better or worse, has come to define the recurring fascination with ancient Egypt in Western European art and culture. The origin of the term, with its intimations of the irrational and popular dimensions of Egypt's...

I found Yve-Alain Bois's defensive remarks in support of his own particular brand of formalism ("Whose Formalism?"Art Bulletin, LxxV IIi, no. 1, 1996, 9-12) profoundly disturbing. One wonders why Bois misrepresents the place of formalism and its role...

There is no longer any question of Picasso or icons. Repin is what the peasant wants, and nothing else but Repin. It is lucky, however, for Repin that the [Soviet] peasant is protected from the products of American capitalism, for he would not stand...

I would like to situate this essay within the context of the "culture wars" that have been raging across the country with particular ferocity since the late 1980s and that have affected and/or been fueled by the educational enterprises in which most...

Given the imprecision of some of these ancien regime institutions, they were often only worth the worth of their incumbents, who fashioned them to their characters and drew from them absolutely unexpected consequences. -Roger Guillemet, Essai sur la...

Race was disproved as a coherent scientific category by Franz Boas in 1928, but racism prospers nearly everywhere.1 Among scholars, the simple but valuable observation that race is a biological fiction but racism a social fact has gained widespread acceptance,...