The Art Bulletin

In 1929, The Art Bulletin published a mock Platonic dialogue, "The New Protagoras, " by the philosopher and historian of art theory A. Philip McMahon. With a text only five pages in length but outfitted with exactly one hundred learned footnotes, the...

In 1855 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres finally broke the vow he had made more than twenty years earlier never again to exhibit his work at an annual Salon. At the Exposition Universelle that year, as one of four painters granted a retrospective presentation,...

KEITH HOLZ Modem German Art for Thirties Paris, Prague, and London: Resistance and Acquiescence in a Democratic Public Sphere Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 359 pp.; 6 color ills., 86 b/w ills.With this book Keith Holz proposes to offer...

MARK A. MEADOW Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Netherlandish Proverbs and the Practice of Rhetoric Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2002. 176 pp.; 50 color ills., 50 b/w. $60.00JOHANN JOSEF BÖKER Architektur der Gotik/ Gothic Architecture: Bestandskatalog der...

The End of Caravaggio Caravaggio: L'ultimo tempo 1606-1610 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, October 23, 2004-January 23, 2005 Caravaggio: The Final Years, National Gallery, London, February 23-May 22, 2005 Nicola Spinosa, ed., with essays by Ferdinando...

I work a bit like the Bible, where the doctrine is pronounced in symbolic form, presenting a double aspect ... ; it's the sense literal, superficial, figurative, mysterious of a parable.-Paul Gauguin to André Fontainas, August 1899(1)Paul Gauguin arrived...