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This volume includes the editorial “Can the referent abscond with its own representation?” by Thomas Crow; “Ivory towers” by Richard Taws; “Are shadows transparent?” by Roberto Casati; “The hidden witness of everything” by David Doris; “Absconding in plain sight” by Roberta Bonetti; “Immanence out of sight” by Joyce Cheng; “A concrete experience of nothing” by William Smith; “Believing in art” by Irene Small; “Repositories of the unconditional” by Gabriele Guercio; “Behind the colonnade” by Clemente Marconi; “The myth of ‘unmade’ images and the art of absconding” by Gerhard Wolf; “Moving eyes” by Bissera Pentcheva; “Interior motives” by Melissa Katz; “‘A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned’” by Rebecca Zorach; “Out of sight, yet still in place” by Minou Schraven; “Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem” by Irina Oryshkevich; “Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried” by Claudia Brittenham; “Apparition painting” by Yukio Lippit; “Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs” by Wu Hung; “Seeing through dead eyes” by Jonathan Hay; “On the ‘true body’ of Huineng” by Michele Matteini; “Boxed in” by Miranda Lash; “Digitalisation” by Boris Groys; and “Des figures et des catégories” by Remo Guidieri.

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

living in Milan

Gerhard Wolf is Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence.

Jonathan Hay is Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts at New York University

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ISBN 10: 087365854X ISBN 13: 9780873658546
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap, which has opened, not enough to remove the book. According to WorldCat, this volume has 360 p. and is illustrated. Contents: The absconded subject of pop / Thomas Crow -- Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs / Wu Hung -- On the "true body" of Huineng: The matter of the miracle / Michele Matteini -- Apparition painting / Yukio Lippit -- Immanence out of sight: formal rigor and ritual function in Carl Einstein's Negerplastik / Joyce Cheng -- Absconding in plain sight: The Ghanaian Receptacles of Proverbs revisited / Roberta Bonetti -- Ancient Maya sculptures of Tikal, seen and unseen / Megan E. O'Neil -- Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried / Claudia Brittenham -- The Parthenon frieze: Degrees of visibility / Clemente Marconi -- Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem / Irina Oryshkevich -- Out of sight, yet still in place: On the use of Italian Renaissance portrait medals as building deposits / Minou Schraven -- Behind closed doors: Distributed bodies, hidden interiors, and corporeal erasure in Vierge ouvrante sculpture / Melissa R. Katz -- Moving eyes: Surface and shadow in the Byzantine mixed-media relief icon / Bissera V. Pentcheva -- "A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned": On Claude Mellan's insinuating lines / Rebecca Zorach -- Ivory towers: Obscuring obsolescence in the revolutionary museum / Richard Taws -- Boxed in: Imagining the unseen in Roberto Matta's cube constructions / Miranda Lash -- A concrete experience of nothing: Paul Sharit's flicker films / William S. Smith -- Believing in art: The votive structures of conceptual art / Irene V. Small -- Repositories of the unconditional: Gino De Dominicis' Mirror and the work of art as model of immortality -- Lectures, documents and discussion: From miro/macrocosm to the aesthetics of ruins and wast-bodies / Jeanette Zwingenberger -- Are shadows transparent? An investigation on white, shadows, and transparency in pictures / Roberto Casati -- Invisibility of the digital: Religion, ritual, immortality / Boris Groys -- Des formes et des catégories: Apostille à la proposition de Jonathan Hay, Wu Hung, et Francesco Pellizzi -- Further comments on "Absconding" / Francesco Pellizzi. Oversize [otob nr frnc rm (2); otob: 27]. Seller Inventory # 401649

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