Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 46, Autumn 2004
Polemical Objects
Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
Editorial: Polemical Objects
Philip Armstrong, Stephen Melville, Erika Naginski
Visuality and Pictoriality
Whitney Davis
Fashion and the now-time of Renaissance art
Alexander Nagel
Battle Controversy and Two Polemical Images by Sodoma
Tomoo Matsubara
Impossible Objects: Bosch's realism
Joseph Koerner
Counter Reformation Polemic and Mannerist Counter-Aesthetics: Bronzino's Martyrdom of St. Lawrence in San Lorenzo
Stephen J. Campbell
Beautiful Helen and Her Double in the Galeria by Cavalier Marino
Victor Stoichita
Julien's Poussin, or the Limits of Sculpture
Erika Naginski
Riegl's Mache
Christopher Wood
Rodchenko's Monochromes and the Perfection of Painting
Philip Armstrong
Richard Serra: Taking the Measure of the Impossible
Stephen Melville
Sherrie Levine: On Painting
Howard Singerman
"Specific" Objects
Rosalind Krauss
Ten Predicaments
Mel Bochner
Documents and Discussions
Bodies at Rest...Or The Object of Surrealism
Edward Powers
Dubuffet, Levi-Strauss, and the idea of art brut
Kent Minturn
In Honor of Savage Values
Jean Dubuffet
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.