Table of Contents

Michael W. Meister, Image iconopraxis and iconoplasty in South Asia; Michele Matteini, The body as object: A case study on the "true body" of Huineng (638-713) and Chan/Zen Buddhist religious practice; Ladislav Kesner, Face as artifact in early Chinese art; Yukio Lippit, Sotatsu and the watery poetics of ink painting; Xavier Urcid, Oracles and warfare: The role of carved monuments in the early development of Monte Alban (400-200 B.C.); Anna Anquissola, Retaining the function: Sacred copies in Greek and Roman art; Bissera Pentcheva, The energy of the relic versus the artifice of the container; Friedrich T. Bach, Brunelleschi - Manetto/Matteo: Central perspective and anthropological experiment; Daniel Sherer, Mysteries of perspective and mysteries of state: Anamorphosis and the "king's two bodies" in Holbein's Ambassadors; Noga Arikha, Opaque humors, enlightened emotions, and the transparent mind; Erika Naginski, Building on history: Piranesi and Vico; Haim Finkelstein, Screen and layered depth: Surrealist painting and the conceptualization of mental space; Nuit Banai, Between republic and regime: Abstraction and democracy in Yves Klein's The Void. Documents and Discussions; Laura Ilea, The hermeneutics of the artwork and the end of the age of nostalgia: From oblivion of being (Heidegger) to its enhancement (Gadamer). Commentary by Remo Guidieri.

About the Author

Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.