RES, 49/50

RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics
49/50 (spring/autumn 2006)

The destruction of images in Teotihuacan: anthropomorphic sculpture, elite cults, and the end of a civilization / Leonardo Lujan et al.

The stars of the Palenque sarcophagus / Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos

A tale of two bodies: on aesthetic condensation in the Mexican colonial graffiti of Actopan, 1629 / Alessandra Russo

 Uneasy reflections: images of Venice and Tenochtitlan in Benedetto Bordone's Isolario / David Y. Kim

What's in a Dogon mask / Polly Richards

The unfunctioning baby and other spectacular departures from the human in Yoruba visual culture / David T. Doris

The torchlight visit: guiding the eye through the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century antique sculpture galleries / Claudia Mattos 

Countermagical combinations by Dosso Dossi / Christopher Wood 

The demotic Campidoglio: ritual, social unrest, and a case of wizardry / Charles Burroughs

LECTURES, DOCUMENTS, AND DISCUSSIONS: Anachronism and simulation in Renaissance architectural theory / Anne-Marie Sankovitch -- An improbable dimension / Raviv Ganchrow --Learning from New Orleans / Wes Wallace -- Trends in New Orleans psychogeography / Aoife Naughton -- The “Kulturbolschewiken” II: Fluxus, Khruschev, and the “concretist society” / Cuauhtemoc Medina -- Unforgiving art, unforgivable nations / Robert Hullot-Kentor -- Amulets / Frederic Will