Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 17 & 18, Spring/Autumn 1989

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    L'esthétique Engagée
    Remo Guidieri

    Uranopolis or Somapolis?
    Joseph Rykwert

    Olmec Colossal Heads as Recarved Thrones: "Mutilation," Revolution, and Recarving
    James B. Porter

    Transplanted Medicine: Colonial Mexican Herbals of the Sixteenth Century
    Debra Hassig

    Ritual Mutilation of Power Objects: the Case of Some Maori Feather Boxes
    Florina H. Capistrano

    Alethela: The Iconography of Death/Rebirth in Three Cups by the Sotades Painter
    Herbert Hoffmann

    "The Motions of the Countenance": Rembrandt's Early Portraits and the Tronie
    Frederic Schwartz

    Khubilai's Groom
    Jonathan Hay

    One View of a Town: Prior Park and the City of Bath
    Vaughan Hart

    Henry Moore and Pre-Columbian Art
    Barbara Braun

    Mésaventures de l'art: Premières Impressions des Magiciens de Ía Terre
    Francesco Pellizzi

    List of Authors

    Contents of Res 19/20 Spring/Autumn 1990

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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.