Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 38, Autumn 2000

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Editorial: On the New
    Boris Groys

    Profane Icons: The Significance of Animal Violence in Byzantine Art
    Henry Maguire

    Rhetorical Images of the Virgin: The Icon of the "Usual Miracle" at the Blachernai
    Bissera V. Pentcheva

    The Vision And its "Exceedingly Blessed Beholder": Of Desire and Participation in the Icon
    Nicoletta Tsar

    A New Origin of Perspective
    Graziella Federici Vescovini

    Perspective as Process in Vermeer
    Christopher Heuer

    Ancient Tollan: The Sacred Precinct
    Alba Guadalupe Mastache and Robert H. Cobean

    The Maya King's Body, Mirror of the Universe
    Claude-Francois Baudez

    Protective Perimeters: The Symbolism of Borders on Paracas Textiles
    Anne Paul

    Inca Iconography: The Art of Empire in the Andes
    Tamara L. Bray

    Documents and Discussions
    A Pre-Bretonian Advocacy of Automatism in Art: Spare and Carter's "Automatic Drawing" (1916)
    Joseph Masheck

    The Thinking Man and the Femme Sans Tête: Collective Perception and Self-Represenation
    Simon Baker

    The Readymade as Movement: Cunningham, Duchamp, and Nam June Paik's Two Merces
    Mark Franko

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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.