Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 41, Spring 2002

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Editorial: Visual Ambiguity and Interpretation
    Dario Gamboni

    Preconscious/Posthumous Smithson: The Ambiguous Status of Art and Artist in the Postmodern Frame
    Caroline A. Jones

    Minimalism and the City: Robert Smithson as a Social Critic
    Robert Linsley

    Opacity and Transparence: Networks and Enclaves in the Rome of Sixtus V
    Charles Burroughs

    The Space of Idolatry: Reformation, Incarnation, and the Ethnographic Image
    Michael Gaudio

    Giving Up and Taking On: The Body in Ritual
    Michael W. Meister

    Sojourns of a Peripatetic Deity
    Pika Ghosh

    Documents and Discussions

    Cultural Turning Points in Art: Art between Parasitism and Admiration
    Mario Perniola

    A Tribute to John Hejduk

    Hunting Life: A Forever House: Prefigure Is Epilogue
    David Gersten

    The Landscape of the Gaze: A Search to Find the Space and Time of Seeing
    Homa Shojaie
    Introduction by Remo Guidieri

    An Art Without: After the Venice Biennale, Summer 2001
    Remo Guidieri

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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.