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Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor

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Peter Burke
Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-079
Published: 01 January 2010
...Peter Burke Larry Silver, Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 352 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War...
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Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome ed. by Susan E. Alcock, Mariana Egri, and James F. D. Frakes

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John Boardman
Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6940330
Published: 01 August 2018
...John Boardman Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Alcock Susan E. Egri Mariana Frakes James F. D. , eds., Beyond Boundaries: Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome ( Los Angeles : Getty Publications , 2016 ), 386 pp. ...
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Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution

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Peter Bowler
Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 561–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281909
Published: 01 August 2013
...Peter Bowler Pietsch Theodore W. , Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2012 ), 358 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre...
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WATCH OUT FOR THINKING (EVEN FUZZY THINKING): Concept and Percept in Modern Art

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Richard Shiff
Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 65–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1815660
Published: 01 January 2013
...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...
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Introduction: Genres of Blur

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Martin Jay, Ermanno Bencivenga, Peter Burke, Christopher P. Jones, Ardis Butterfield ...
Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 220–228.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1544905
Published: 01 April 2012
... boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of “blurring” imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications...
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Writing for the Body: Notation, Reconstruction, and Reinvention in Dance

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Mark Franko
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 321–334.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1188004
Published: 01 April 2011
...Mark Franko This article explores the history of dance notation from the Renaissance to postmodern dance. It examines the tension between text and oral tradition in Western dance practices, as well as the issue of how to reconcile our views of choreography as both scriptural and visual. It has been...
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“        ”

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Mikhail Epstein
Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 367–403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2010-001
Published: 01 August 2010
... everywhere, on every surface, in every language, and also in the arts. Epstein analyzes works by Rauschenberg, Malevich, Ilya Kabakov, and Vasilisk Gdenov in the visual arts, as well as music by John Cage, to demonstrate the usefulness of his new sign for aesthetics and art criticism. Each discipline, he...
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A Seminar On Diagrams as Conversation and Consolation

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Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 356–365.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6939745
Published: 01 August 2018
... fields in which diagrams and diagrammatic modes of thought currently play a critical role: not only art history, visual studies, and design, but also computer science, “Bildwissenschaft,” and the history of literature and science, as well as music history and composition. Each participant, including...
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Two Classrooms in China

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Linda Safran, Adam S. Cohen
Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 375–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-6939769
Published: 01 August 2018
...), respectively, many of the lessons from one Chinese classroom are applicable to any context in which students are asked to grapple with unfamiliar textual and visual material. This teaching experience proved to be not only about communicating material, skills, and ideas to the students but also also...
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From Matter to Material Culture

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Maureen C. Miller
Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 62–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11014049
Published: 01 January 2024
... through analyses of a single object, the Louvain beguine cradle from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The essay begins by treating Bynum's research from the 1980s to the early 1990s as moving toward a “visual theology” and then charts her movement from an interest in matter...
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Prometheus and the Muses: On Art and Technology

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Barry Allen
Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (3): 354–378.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2006-002
Published: 01 August 2006
... towers.”masonry energy; its enormous is thrust perfectly contained, in a visual sense, by the heavy two, and including their foundations, they contain do some work. or Of not,course, structural...
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Notes on Contributors

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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 188–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-18-1-188
Published: 01 January 2012
... Culture Visual The Artists: as Nuns Theology Soest bei Paradies of Convent he ences, is the author of and Sci of A Academy University. Arts fellow of at the American Harvard studies medieval F. Jeffrey Scholarship Renaissance in Chapter Forgotten a and Jews, the Casaubon, Book...
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Art and the Second World War

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James Trilling
Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 342–343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872714
Published: 01 April 2015
... (no orphotography film); art graphic and sculpture, painting, is There volume. manageable physically lavish, visually twenty- and ten between has ter chap Each of Japan. bombing nuclear War,the and Holocaust, Civil the Spanish onthe chapters additional with orAxis, Allied nation...
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Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student

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Jacqueline E. Jung
Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 76–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11014062
Published: 01 January 2024
..., as Bynum did in her responses to Steinberg and Turner. One could even, I learned eventually, make arguments from visual evidence alone, without relying on texts to reinforce them. 54 52. À propos of active reading: in May 2023 I was happily surprised to see New Haven's best used bookstore, Grey...
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BARNETT Newman's “SENSE OF Space”: A Noncontextualist Account of Its Perception and Meaning

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Michael Schreyach
Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 351–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2073367
Published: 01 April 2013
... for the created dynamics kinesthetic and complex visual the Instead, field. that into enterto imaginatively expectation a viewer’s customary it resists fieldas a phenomenon extension, pictorial lateral of the notions tional of“sense space.”his...
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Life in Common

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Clifford Geertz
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 548–549.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-548
Published: 01 August 2002
... paralleled the contem- porary practice of breaking the bodies of criminals on the wheel. From this observation arise both an exploration of how utterly different are medieval and modern understandings of pain and an argument for how visual culture...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect

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Marjorie Perloff
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 549.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-549
Published: 01 August 2002
... paralleled the contem- porary practice of breaking the bodies of criminals on the wheel. From this observation arise both an exploration of how utterly different are medieval and modern understandings of pain and an argument for how visual culture...
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Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism

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Barry Allen
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 549–550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-549-a
Published: 01 August 2002
... paralleled the contem- porary practice of breaking the bodies of criminals on the wheel. From this observation arise both an exploration of how utterly different are medieval and modern understandings of pain and an argument for how visual culture...
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Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System

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Colin Richmond
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 550.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-550
Published: 01 August 2002
... paralleled the contem- porary practice of breaking the bodies of criminals on the wheel. From this observation arise both an exploration of how utterly different are medieval and modern understandings of pain and an argument for how visual culture...
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Henry James and Modern Moral Life

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Shira Wolosky
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 550–551.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-3-550-a
Published: 01 August 2002
... paralleled the contem- porary practice of breaking the bodies of criminals on the wheel. From this observation arise both an exploration of how utterly different are medieval and modern understandings of pain and an argument for how visual culture...
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