..., Zeshin, and Richter. With reference to art criticism by Hubert Damisch, Wayne Andersen, Anthony Hughes, Robert Storr, Julian Bell, Christopher Prendergast, and especially T. J. Clark, he agrees that choosing between focus and blur can be a moral decision, though not in the sense for which Clark arraigns...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-10 Reviews 7/14/02 3:13 PM Page 548 LITTLE REVIEWS Tzvetan Todorov, Life in Common, trans. Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 174 pp...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2006 S y m p o s i u m : U n s o c i a l T h o u g h t , U n c o m m o n L i v e s , Pa r t 2 JOSEPH CORNELL’S “HEALTHIER POSSIBILITIES” Wayne Andersen Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...

...Wayne Andersen F. W. Kent, Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 230 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman...

...Wayne Andersen This review essay emphasizes the distinction between academic art history, based ultimately on the model of scientific research, and the sort that Roberto Calasso practices in his 2009 study Tiepolo in Pink . It is difficult to locate the book's genre, and the reviewer rejects...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2004 HOW NOT TO TAKE SIDES Leon Battista Alberti—Renaissance Man? Wayne Andersen My subject here is assertion or assertiveness—or rather, which assertions might be worth disputing and how...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2004 LITTLE REVIEWS Hilary Putnam, The Collapse of the Fact-Value Distinction and Other Essays (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 224 pp. Putnam is at his best when...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2002 LITTLE REVIEWS Tzvetan Todorov, Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien: Enquête sur le siècle (Paris: Robert Laffont, 2000), 353 pp. Once the proponent of an impersonal formalist...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2005 LITTLE REVIEWS Pascal Khoo Thwe, From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 320 pp. This is a classic coming-of-age, my-life-as-parable...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2002 LITTLE REVIEWS Aris Fioretos, The Gray Book (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999), 152 pp. The absence-of-color gray and the semiotics of the absence-of-quantity zero are the lead...

...Miguel Tamen; Wayne Andersen; Velcheru Narayana Rao; Sanjay Subrahmanyam; Ingrid D. Rowland; J. Paul Hunter; Yoke-Sum Wong The essay discusses the presumption of one's singularity, the uniqueness of one's time, the picturesqueness of one actions, and the capacity of human beings, whether...

...Wayne Andersen This essay forms part of an “elegiac symposium” on “what gets lost during paradigm shifts,” and it replies to an earlier contribution to that symposium, “ Regarding Change at Ise-Jingu ” by Jeffrey M. Perl ( 14 , no. 2 [ 2008 ]: 208 -20; DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2007-069 ]) . Andersen...

...Wayne Andersen Like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the current international monetary crisis—bank failures and a collapse of markets worldwide—was not sufficiently predictable to preempt with defensive action. One would think that history's experiences with sudden breakdowns in global...

...Wayne Andersen Jed Perl, New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century (New York: Vintage, 2007), 656 pp. Jed Perl, Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World (New York: Vintage, 2008), 224 pp. Duke University Press 2010...

...Wayne Andersen © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 COLUMNS This Is How I Want You to Remember Me Wayne Vesti Andersen (1928 – 2014) contemplating works from a series of large paintings...

...Wayne Andersen Cohen-Solal Annie , Leo and His Circle: The Life of Leo Castelli ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2010 ), 534 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church...

...Wayne Andersen © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Symposium: Devalued Currency, Part 2 why disinterest is still interesting The Case of Roger Fry Wayne Andersen Insofar as taste can be changed by one man...

...Wayne Andersen; Jeffrey M. Perl Kent F. W. , Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Art of Magnificence ( Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2004 ), 230 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

... Not to Take Sides: Leon 314 Battista Alberti—Renaissance Man? Wayne Andersen Ekphrastic Poems II 198 Stephen Ratcliffe 347 SYMPOSIUM Neo-Stoic Alternatives, c.1400 –2004: LITTLE REVIEWS Essays on Folly...

..., Margaret Reid, and Thomas Shapcott 319 REJOINDER LITTLE REVIEWS The Disunity of Aesthetics: Clifford Geertz A Response to J. G. A. Pocock Wayne Andersen Casey Haskins Myrna Goldenberg 326...