by Jon Lackman | 22 November 2010 | Books
In the latest issue of Revue de l’art (n. 169), Marianne Jakobi lauds Cannibalismes disciplinaires. Quand l’histoire de l’art et l’anthropologie se rencontrent, a collection of conference proceedings, for its “ample documentation, rigorous analysis, [and] critical distance.” (Available online: Many of the papers, plus an English translation of the introduction.)
In another review in this issue, Marie-Pauline Martin notes the enduring influence of Marian Hobson’s 1982 book The Object of Art. The Theory of Illusion in Eighteenth-Century France, which has finally been translated in French:
[It has] become, in France, a reference work in the historiography of the eighteenth-century and beyond … [Subsequent] works such as the 1984 book La mélancolie de l’art by Sarah Kofman, the 1999 Grand Palais catalogue on Chardin by Pierre Rosenberg, the 1997 musicological study by Michel Noiray of Adam’s Smith’s Essais esthétiques, the 2009 Philip Stewart and Michel Delon book Le second triomphe du roman au XVIIIe siècle – all attest to the authority of [Hobson’s] work, which went beyond summarizing the multiple Enlightenment discourses on illusion to propose an engaged and problematized analytic history.
