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Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res is available at www.res-journal.org.

The contents of this issue are: Editorial: Polemical objects, by Philip Armstrong, Stephen Melville, and Erika Naginski; Visuality and pictoriality, by Whitney Davis; Renaissance art comes into fashion, by Alexander Nagel; Battle controversy and two polemical images by Sodoma, by Tomoo Matsubara; Impossible objects, by Joseph Koerner; Counter reformation polemic and Mannerist counter-aesthetics: Bronzino's Martyrdom of St. Lawrence in San Lorenzo, by Stephen J. Campbell; Helena and her double in the galeria by Cavalier Marino, by Victor Stoichita; Julien's Poussin, or the limits of sculpture, by Erika Naginski; Riegl's Mache, by Christopher Wood; Rodchenko's monochromes and the perfection of painting, by Philip Armstrong; Richard Serra: Taking the measure of the impossible, by Stephen Melville; Sherrie Levine's painting: Art history without names, by Howard Singerman; 'Specific' objects, by Rosalind Krauss; Ten predicaments, by Mel Bochner; Bodies at rest...or the object of Surrealism, by Edward Powers; and In honor of savage values, by Jean Dubuffet, with a correspondence with Claude Levi-Strauss, and edited, translated, and with a preface by Kent

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.

Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, among others.