Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 51, Spring 2007

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    Image iconopraxis and iconoplasty in South Asia
    Michael W. Meister

    The body as object: A case study on the "true body" of Huineng (638-713) and Chan/Zen Buddhist religious practice
    Michele Matteini

    Face as artifact in early Chinese art
    Ladislav Kesner

    Sotatsu and the watery poetics of ink painting
    Yukio Lippit

    Oracles and warfare: The role of carved monuments in the early development of Monte Alban (400-200 BCE)
    Xavier Urcid

    Retaining the function: Sacred copies in Greek and Roman art
    Anna Anquissola

    The energy of the relic versus the artifice of the container
    Bissera Pentcheva

    Brunelleschi--Manetto/Matteo: Central perspective and anthropological experiment
    Friedrich T. Bach

    Mysteries of perspective and mysteries of state: Anamorphosis and the "king's two bodies" in Holbein's Ambassasors
    Daniel Sherer

    Opaque humors, enlightened emotions, and the transparent mind
    Noga Arikha

    Building on history: Piranesi and Vico
    Erika Naginski

    Screen and layered depth: Surrealist painting and the conceptualization of mental space
    Haim Finkelstein

    Between republic and regime: Abstraction and democracy in Yves Klein's The Void
    Nuit Banai

    Documents and Discussions

    The hermeneutics of the artwork and the end of the age of nostalgia: From oblivion of being (Heidegger) to its enhancement (Gadamer)
    Laura Ilea

    Commentary
    by 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.