Journal of Art Historiography, No. 29, December 2023.

CONTENTS:

General papers

Xiangming Chen (Oxford), ‘Curators of China knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan’ 29/XC1

Elisa Galardi (University of Pennsylvania), ‘” Unframing” Byzantine ivories: painterliness, reliefs, and the place of Byzantine art in early twentieth-century German scholarship’ 29/EG1

Anna Grasskamp (University of Oslo), ‘Reframing the history of proletarian art: Sino-Japanese relations in modern woodcut print culture’ 29/AG1

Joseph Hammond (American University of Beirut), ‘Vasari and portraiture: function, aesthetics and propaganda’ 29/JH1

Andrew Hopkins (University of L’Aquila), ‘Palladio drawings in Britain: half a century of research’ 29/AH1

Kerr Houston (Maryland Institute College of Art), ‘An historiographic contextualization of Leo Steinberg’s “Observations in the Cerasi Chapel”’ 29/KH1

Matilde Mateo (Syracuse University), ‘The artist as historian-politician: Romantic historicism, art, and architecture in the performance of cultural nationalism in Pérez Villaamil and Escosura’s España artística y monumental (1842-50)’ 29/MM1

William McCrory (Independent, Jakarta), ‘Unreconcilable contradictions: the poetry of Aditya Prakash’ 29/WMcC1

Hiram Woodward (Independent, Walters Art Museum retired), ‘Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Benoy Kumar Sarkar, and the Śukranīti’ 29/HW1

Documents

Ambra D’Antone (Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice), ‘“Karagöz is ours”: İsmayıl Hakkı Baltacıoğlu’s cultural revivalism and the Long Turkish Modernity’ 29/ADA1

David Peters Corbett (Courtauld Institute), ‘Exile and subjectivity: words and images in the writings of Sadakichi Hartmann’ 29/DPC1

Conference report

Łukasz Żuchowski and Emma Żuchowska (University of Warsaw), Conference report: ‘Art history and its institutions in the Austro-Hungarian Empire’ 28th-30th September 2023 29/LEZ1

Reviews

Francesca Billiani (Manchester University), ‘Baroquemania: a counter-rationalist history of Italian art’. Review of: Laura Moure Cecchini, Baroquemania: Italian Visual Culture and The Construction of National Identity, 1898-1954, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021, 288 pp., 93 col. Plates, £80, ISBN 9781526153173. 29/FB1

Matthew Bowman (Suffolk University), ‘American-type art criticism’. Review of: Art Criticism and Modernism in the United States by Stephen Moonie, Routledge, 2022, 206pp. 10 colour and 30 b. & w. illus. ISBN: 9780367565411, £120. 29/MB1

Alison Clarke (Independent, Northumbria), ‘Mein Leben and beyond: Wilhelm Bode, commerce and art’. Review of: Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market: Connoisseurship, Networking and Control of the Marketplace, edited by Joanna Smalcerz, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022, 292pp., 60 col. illus., €135.00, ISBN: 9789004521902 (hdbk), ISBN: 9789004532458 (e-book). 29/AC1

A. A. Donohue (Bryn Mawr), ‘Iconotropy: everything or nothing?’. Review of: Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World, Routledge Research in Art and Religion, edited by Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, New York and London: Routledge, 2022, 212 pp., 49 b. & w. illus. $136.00 hdbk, ISBN 978-1-032-03065-4; $42.36 ebk, ISBN 978-1-003-18650-2, DOI: 10.4324/9781003186502. 29/AA1

Stephen Adéyẹmí Fọlárànmí (Rhodes University, South Africa), ‘The language of beauty in African art’. Review of: The Language of Beauty in African Art, Edited by Constantine Petridis. Contributions by Yaelle Biro, Herbert M Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Constantine Petridis, Wilfried van Damme and Susan Vogel. New Haven and London: Yale UP 2022, 356 Pages, 9.00 x 12.70 in, 315 color + 30 b-w illus. ISBN 9780300260045 (hbk); 9780300269918 (ebook). $65.00. 29/SAF1

David Hemsoll (University of Birmingham), ‘The ‘purification of the personality of Sanmicheli’. Review of: Il Michele Sanmicheli di Antonio Morassi: La tesi all’Università di Vienna e una monografia perduta (1916-1920) by Giulio Zavatta, Treviso: Zel, 2022, 230pp, 49 col. Illus. ISBN 9788887186307 €25.00. 29/DH1

Hans Christian Hönes (University of Aberdeen), ‘Authority and Authenticity in Art Writing’. Review of: Matthias Krüger, Léa Kuhn, Ulrich Pfisterer (Eds): Pro Domo. Kunstgeschichte in eigener Sache, Paderborn: Brill Fink 2021. ISBN: 978-3-8467-6506-7, 405 p., €73.83. 29/HCH1

Niamh NicGhabhann (University of Limerick), ‘Another way of telling the story’. Review of: Sources in Irish Art 2: A Reader, edited by Fintan Cullen and Róisín Kennedy, Cork: Cork University Press, 2021, 424pp., 21 illus., €39.00 hdbk, £20.70 Kindle, ISBN: 9781782054573. 29/NN1

Wenyi Qian (University of Toronto), ‘Dialogic art history’. Review of: Vessels: The Object as Container, edited by Claudia Brittenham, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 196pp, 78 col. plates, 23 b. & w. illus., £38.49 ISBN 9780198832577; Conditions of Visibility, edited by Richard Neer, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 168pp, 66 col. plates, £24.99 ISBN 9780198845560; Figurines: Figuration and the Sense of Scale, edited by Jaś Elsner, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, 208pp, 77 col. plates, £36.49 ISBN 9780198861096; Landscape and Space: Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art, edited by Jaś Elsner, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, 208pp, 95 col. plates, £65.00 ISBN 9780192845955. Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series. 29/WQ1

A.E. Redgate (Newcastle University), ‘Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk Road’. Review of: Christiane Esche-Ramshorn, East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road: Sharing St. Peter’s, London and New York: Routledge, 2022, 224 pp., 38 b/w figs, 20 col. figs, £120, ISBN 9781409403067. 29/AER1

Diana Reynolds-Cordileone (Point Loma Nazarene University), ‘Complexities, conflicts, and cooperations in a shared cultural space’. Review of: The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, by Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, and Nóra Veszprémi,University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, 290pp., 47 b. & w. illus., $99.95 hdbk, $39.95 pbk ISBN 9780271087108. 29/DRC1

Matt Saba (M.I.T. Library), ‘Medieval Islamic objects and the architecture of the mind’. Review of: Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam by Margaret S. Graves, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, 339 pp., over 100 col. plates and b. & w. illus., £68 hdbk, Print ISBN 9780190695910, Online ISBN 9780190695941. 29/MS1

Erhan Tamur (Metropolitan Museum of Art), ‘Whither Strukturforschung?’ Review of: The New Vienna School of Art History. Fulfilling the Promise of Analytic Holism by Ian Verstegen, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 29/ET1

Arnold Witte (University of Amsterdam), ‘Neutral observer or institutionalized voice? Willibald Sauerländer and German art history after 1945‘. Review of: Willibald Sauerländer und die Kunstgeschichte, Franz Hefele/Ulrich Pfisterer (eds.), Passau: Dietmar Klinger Verlag 2022 (Veröffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in München 54). ISBN 978-3-86328-186-1 29/AW1

Book received

Joaquin Lorda, 'Gombrich: A Theory of Art'. Edited by María Angélica Martínez, Juan Luis Lorda, María Antonia Frías, Ramón Alemany. Preface by E. H. Gombrich. Afterword by Partha Mitter. Published November 2023 (Hardback) by Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 9781399512572