Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 53/54: Spring and Autumn 2008

by Jonathan Hay (Contributor), Ernst van Alphen, Stephen Melville

This double volume The value of forgery , Jonathan Hay; Affective operations of art and literature , Ernst van Alphen; Betty’s Turn , Stephen Melville; Richard Serra in Germany , Magdalena Nieslony; Beheadings and massacres , Federico Navarrete; Pliny the Elder and the identity of Roman art , Francesco de Angelis; Between nature and artifice , Francesca Dell’Acqua; Narrative cartographies , Gerald Guest; The artist and the icon , Alexander Nagel; Preliminary thoughts on Piranesi and Vico , Erika Naginski; Portable ruins , Alina Payne; The palimpsest city in search of its archi-text , Nebahat Avcioglu; The iconicity of Islamic calligraphy in Turkey , Irvin Cemil Schick; The Buddha’s house , Kazi Khalid Ashraf; A flash of recognition into how not to be governed , Natasha Eaton; Hasegawa’s fairy tales , Christine Guth; The paradox of the ethnographic-superaltern , Anna Brzyski, and contributions to “Lectures, Documents and Discussions” by Karen Kurczyncki, Mary Dumett, Emmanuel Alloa, Francesco Pellizzi, and Boris Groys.

350 pages, Paperback

First published November 15, 2008