Author: ed. Pellizzi Francesco
Place: Santa Monica
Publisher: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Year: 1993
Pages: 137
ISBN: 0-521-44741-0
Source: Donated by Charles Correa Associates
Subject: Architecture
Sub-Subject: Architecture History
Keyword: Anthropology, Architecture
Classification: 720
Shelf: C4R4
Accession No: B223
Contents: Meteorology The Building’s face and the Herculean Paradigm: agendas and agency in Roman Renaissance Architecture A Newly Discovered Corpus of Vitruvian Images A Peece rather of good Heraldry, than of Architecture: Heraldry and the Orders of Architecture as joint Emblems of Chivalry Mumukokolua: Sago Spathe Paintings among the Sawiyano of Papua New Guinea The Lawyer of Poro? A Sixteenth-century West African Masquerade Jocho’s Statue of Amida at the Byodo-in and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan The Incarnation of Desire: Dali and the Surrealist Object List of Authors Contents of Res 24 Autumn 1993
Abstract: *Res 23 Spring 1993: Anthropology and Aesthetics* examines the relationship between cultural expression, material form, and symbolic meaning across time and cultures. Blending anthropology and art history, it explores themes such as symbolism in Roman Renaissance architecture, heraldry as a visual code of chivalry, and newly discovered Vitruvian drawings. Ethnographic studies include sago spathe paintings in Papua New Guinea and a West African legal masquerade. The issue also addresses Jocho’s Amida statue in Japan and Dalí’s surrealist objects. Framed by the metaphor of “Meteorology,” it considers how aesthetics shape social, political, and spiritual meaning across diverse cultural landscapes.