Name: Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 59/60: Spring/Autumn 2011
Author: Pellizzi, Francesco
ISBN: 9780873658621

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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 59/60: Spring/Autumn 2011

edited by Francesco Pellizzi

Harvard University Press, 2011
Paper: 978-0-87365-862-1

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

RES 59/60 includes “The making of architectural types” by Joseph Rykwert; “Traces of the sun and Inka kinetics” by Tom Cummins and Bruce Mannheim; “Inka water management and display fountains” by Carolyn Dean; “Guaman Poma’s pictures of huacas” by Lisa Trever; “Peruvian nature up close” by Daniela Bleichmar; and other papers.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Editorial: The river around us, the stream within us: The traces of the sun and Inka kinetics - Tom Cummins and Bruce Mannheim

Inka water management and the symbolic dimensions of display fountains - Carolyn Dean

Idols, mountains, and metaphysics in Guaman Poma’s pictures of huacas - Lisa Trever

Peruvian nature up close, seen from afar - Daniela Bleichmar

About time: Problems of narrative in the Battle Mural at Cacaxtla - Claudia Brittenham

The Codex Teotenantzin and the Pre-Hispanic images of the Sierra de Guadalupe, México - Leonardo Lopez Lujan and Xavier Noguez

Under the sign of the cross in the kingdom of Kongo: Religious conversion and visual correlation in early modern Central Africa - Cecile Fromont

Hunters, Sufis, soldiers, and minstrels: The diaspora aesthetics of the Moroccan Gnawa - Cynthia Becker

The birth of an image: The painting of a statue of Herakles and theories of representation in ancient Greek culture - Clemente Marconi

Model, type, and the Great Church - Joseph Rykwert

The multiplication of the species: Eucharistic morphology in the Middle Ages - Aden Kumler

Jesus wept! On the history of anthropology in Christianity: A new reading of a miniature from the Gospel book of Otto III as Kippfigur - Beate Fricke

The votive scenario - Christopher S. Wood

Twenty-five notes on pseudo script in Italian art - Alexander Nagel

Dürer’s folds - Christopher Heuer

To conceive of in pictures: An episode from the history of knowledge - Anselm Haverkamp

Primitivism, humanism, and ambivalence: Cobra and Post-Cobra - Karen Kurczynski and Nicola Pezolet

Photography and redemption: Allegory, theology, and artistic practice in Thomas Struth’s early cityscapes - Paula Carabell

Enactive Criticism: Research as embodiment - Tanja Klemm, Esther Schomacher and Jan Soffner

The puppet’s paradox: An organic prosthesis - Chiara Cappelletto

Time-based art - Boris Groys

Globe double: Mimetic capital, technology - David Gersten

L’autre supplément, II - Remo Guidieri

A conversation on music and art: February 16, 1986 - Morton Feldman and Francesco Pellizzi

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