Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 11, Spring 1986

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Order in Building
    Joseph Rykwert

    Text and Image in the Tablets of the Cross Group at Palenque
    Flora Clancy

    London Lecture of November 18, 1853: "The Development of the Wall and Wall Construction in Antiquity"
    Gottfried Semper
    Edited with a Preface by Harry Francis Mallgrave

    London Lecture of November 29, 1854: "On the Relations of Architectural Systems with the General Cultural Conditions"
    Gottfried Semper
    Edited with a Preface by Harry Francis Mallgrave

    Floors and Internal Spaces in Japanese Vernacular Architecture: Phenomenology of Floors
    Arata Isozaki

    A Special Baining Mask Named Guaradingi, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
    Ingrid Küster

    Appendix: A Short Checklist of Kairak and Uramot Baining Night Dance Masks
    George A. Corbin

    A Critique of "Objectivity" and "Metaphors of Things": Russian Futurism and Friedrich Nietzsche
    Rainer Crone

    List Of Authors

    Contents Of Res 12 Autumn 1986

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Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He is also Chair of the University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Columbia University, and Senior Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.