Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 31, Spring 1997

The Abject

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Editorial: The Abject of Art History
    Joseph Leo Koerner

    "To Make Women Weep": Ugly Art as "Feminine" and the Origins of Modern Aesthetics
    Jeffrey F. Hamburger

    The Renaissance Tattoo
    Juliet Fleming

    Blood in Flux, Sanctity at Issue
    Joan R. Branham

    The Mouth of the Komo
    Sarah Brett-Smith

    Death of the Deodand: Accursed Objects and the Money Value of Human Life
    William Pietz

    The Constitution of Bohemia
    Joseph Rykwert

    Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy and the Hermeneutics of Shadow
    Victor I. Stoichita

    "Our Own Imperfect Knowledge": Petrus Camper and the Search for an "Ideal Form"
    Nicholas Grindle

    Lectures and Discussions

    Redefinitions of Abjection in Contemporary Performances of the Female Body
    Christine Ross

    Documents

    A Critique: Pevsner on Modernity (1938)
    Meyer Schapiro
    Translated by David Craven

    A Series of Interviews (July 15, 1992-January 22, 1995)
    Meyer Schapiro and Lillian Milgram Schapiro with David Craven

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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.