Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 48, Autumn 2005

Permanent/Impermanent

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    The contents of this issue are: Susan Sontag, in memoriam; "Presentation," by Finbarr Barry Flood and Zoe S. Strother; "Restoration as recreation at the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris," by Meredith Cohen; "Ars Longa Vita Brevis: Art after agency in ancient Maya sculpture," by Bryan R. Just; "Recycling icons and bodies in Chinese anti-Buddhist persecutions," by Eric Reinders; "Censorship and iconoclasm--unsettling monuments," by John Peffer; "Beyond monument lies empire: Mapping Songhay space in sixteenth-century Mali," by Kristina Van Dyke; "When the object of transmission is not an object: A West African example (Guinea, Conakry)," by David Berliner; "Tocapu: 'You only live twice'," by Tom Cummins; "Roman oscilla: An assessment," by Rabun Taylor; "Turning tale into vision: Time and image in the Divine Comedy," by Gervase Rosser; "Brunelleschi-Manetto/Matteo: Central perspective and anthropological experiment," by Friedrich Bach; and "The Torchlight Visit: Guiding the eye through the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antique sculpture galleries," by Claudia Mattos. Lectures, Documents and Discussions: "Fluxus," Cuauhtemoc Medina; and "'Diskotel' 1967: Israel and the Western Wall in the aftermath of the Six-Day War," by Daniel Bertrand Monk.

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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.