Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 55/56, Absconding

Edited by Francesco Pellizzi

    • Editorial
    • Can the referent abscond with its own representation? The case of Pop Art
      Thomas Crow
    • Ivory towers: Obscuring obsolescence in the revolutionary museum
      Richard Taws
    • Are shadows transparent? An investigation on white, shadows, and transparency in pictures
      Roberto Casati
    • The hidden witness of everything
      David Doris
    • Absconding in plain sight: The Ghanian Receptacles of Proverbs revisited
      Roberta Bonetti
    • Immanence out of sight: Formal rigor and ritual function in Carl Einstein’s Negerplastik
      Joyce Cheng
    • A concrete experience of nothing: Paul Sharits's flicker films
      William Smith
    • Believing in art
      Irene Small
    • Repositories of the unconditional: Gino De Dominicis' Mirror and the work of art as model of immortality
      Gabriele Guercio
    • Behind the colonnade: Absconding friezes in Classical Athens
      Clemente Marconi
    • The myth of "unmade" images and the art of absconding
      Gerhard Wolf
    • Moving eyes: Surface and shadow in the Byzantine mixed-media relief icon
      Bissera Pentcheva
    • Interior motives: Visible bodies and visual erasure in Vierge ouvrante sculpture
      Melissa Katz
    • "A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned": Early modern engraving technique and its (in)perceptibility
      Rebecca Zorach
    • Out of sight, yet still in place. On the use of Italian Renaissance portrait medals as building deposits
      Minou Schraven
    • Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem
      Irina Oryshkevich
    • Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried
      Claudia Brittenham
    • Apparition painting
      Yukio Lippit
    • Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs
      Wu Hung
    • Seeing through dead eyes
      Jonathan Hay
    • On the “true body” of Huineng: Image and vision in eighth-century China Lectures, Documents and Discussions
      Michele Matteini
    • Boxed in: Imagining the unseen in Matta’s cubes
      Miranda Lash
    • From micro/macrocosm to the aesthetics of ruins—then onward to the waste-body
      Jeanette Zwingenberger
    • Digitalisation: Production of the invisible
      Boris Groys
    • Des figures et des catégories: Postilla pour “Absconding”
      Remo Guidieri
  • Cover: Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 55/56, Absconding

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.