Gravity in Art

Mary D. Edwards is a professor of art history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and is a member of the Renaissance Seminar at Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in Studies in Iconography, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Elizabeth Bailey is a professor of art history at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Her work has been published in Speculum and Explorations in Renaissance Culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiiIntroductionMARY D. EDWARDS and ELIZABETH BAILEY      PART ONE: ANCIENT THROUGH NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARTThe Flight of Icarus in the House of the Priest Amandus in PompeiiBETTINA BERGMANN      Levitating Gods and Dream Imagery on Roman CoinageCONSTANTIN A. MARINESCU      Succumbing to Gravity in the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of HohenbourgELIZABETH BAILEY      Descent, Elevation and Ascent: Oppositional Forces in the Strozzi di Mantova ChapelKATHLEEN GILES ARTHUR      Altichiero, Giotto, Dante and the Metaphorical Use of Gravity and LevityMARY D. EDWARDS      The Floating Book: A Reading of Saint Dominic’s Miraculous Book in Italian Art in the Late Thirteenth through the Early Fifteenth CenturiesELIZABETH BAILEY      Leaps of Faith in the Portinari Altarpiece of Hugo van der GoesMARY D. EDWARDS      The Idea of Weightlessness in Girolamo da Carpi’s Kairos and Penitentia (Opportunity and Penitence)MARTINA PFLEGER HESSER      Erotic Fallout in Bernini’s Apollo and DaphnePERRY BROOKS      The Suspension of Gravity in Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Punchinelli on a SwingJOHANNA FASSL      An Uplifting Finale for Jacques-Louis David: Coming to Peace with Mars DisarmedKATIE HANSON      Mind Over Matter: Levitation and the Defiance of Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century PaintingSARAH LIPPERT      Perilous Flight: Icarus’ Transgression of MasculinityJONGWOO JEREMY KIM      PART TWO: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY ARTThe Joy of Breathing: Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Uplift in the Art of Arthur B. DaviesROBIN VEDER      Gravitace, or Gravity in the Social and Artistic Thought of Bohumil KubištaELEANOR F. MOSEMAN      Joseph Cornell’s Universe: Gravity’s AttractionsKIRSTEN HOVING      Pipe Dreams: In Search of an Allegorical MagritteSANDRA ZALMAN      Falling to Heaven: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Pagés and Levity at “the Centre of the Universe”ELLIOTT H. KING      “The Effort of the Dance”: Gravity and Levity in the Poured Paintings of Jackson PollockELIZABETH L. LANGHORNE      Piero Manzoni’s Socle du MondeGREGORY TENTLER      Gravity and the Grave: Jasper Johns and the Metaphorics of the FallISABELLE LORING WALLACE      From Vertigo to Ethereality in EnvironmentalMATTHEW KOLODZIEJ      Falling Bodies and the Problem of Remembrance: Eric Fischl’s Tumbling WomanADRIENNE POSNER      AA Bronson’s Hanged Man: Martyrdom, Ambiguity, and Abu GhraibANDREA D. FITZPATRICK      Photographic Moments Inside of Gravity: Kerry Skarbakka’s Struggle to Right HimselfCOREY DZENKO      Mariko Mori and Pipilotti Rist: Reflections on the “New Levity” inELIZABETH BAILEY      EpilogueMARY D. EDWARDS      About the Contributors      Index