Contents
Editorial: Thomas Crow - The absconded subject of Pop
Wu Hung - Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs
Michelle Matteini- On the “true body” of Huineng: The matter of the miracle
Yukio Lippit - Apparition painting
Joyce Cheng - Immanence out of sight: Formal rigor and ritual function in Carl Einstein’s Negerplastik
Roberta Bonetti- Absconding in plain sight: The Ghanaian Receptacles of Proverbs revisited
Megan E. O'Neil - Ancient Maya sculptures of Tikal, seen and unseen
Claudia Brittenham - Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried
Clemente Marconi - The Parthenon frieze: Degrees of visibility
Irina Oryshkevich - Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem
Minou Schraven - Out of sight, yet still in place: On the use of Italian Renaissance portrait medalsas building deposits
Melissa R. Katz - Behind closed doors: Distributed bodies, hidden interiors, and corporeal erasure in Vierge ouvrante sculpture
Bissera V. Pentcheva - Moving eyes: Surface and shadow in the Byzantine mixed-media relief icon
Rebecca Zorach - “A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned”: On Claude Mellan’s insinuating lines
Richard Taws - Ivory towers: Obscuring obsolescence in the revolutionary museum
Miranda Lash- Boxed in: Imagining the unseen in Roberto Matta’s cube constructions
William S. Smith - A concrete experience of nothing: Paul Sharits’s flicker films
Irene V. Small - Believing in art: The votive structures of conceptual art
Gabriele Guercio - Repositories of the unconditional: Gino De Dominicis’ Mirror and the work of art as model of immortality
Jeanette Zwingenberger - From micro/macrocosm to the aesthetics of ruins and waste-bodies
Roberto Casati- Are shadows transparent? An investigation on white, shadows, and transparency in pictures
Boris Groys - Invisibility of the digital: Religion, ritual, immortality
Remo Guidieri - Des formes et des catégories: Apostille à la proposition de Jonathan Hay, Wu Hung, et Francesco Pellizzi
Francesco Pellizzi - Further comments on “Absconding”