Presence The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects

Contents: Introduction, Rupert Shepherd and Robert Maniura; 'Not one hair different': Wen Zhengming on imaging the dead in Ming funerary portraiture, Craig Clunas; Projecting presence: the monumental cross in the Italian church interior, Donal Cooper; Installing absence? The consecration of a Jina image, John E. Cort; Presence and translucence: Appar's guide to devotional receptivity, Richard H. Davis; Metonymy in Inca art, Carolyn Dean; Presence of divinity: Poussin's conception of figures and the depiction of mythical nature, Gert Fischer; Psychological analysis of deciding if something is presented in a picture, Norman Freeman; Desire and disgust: touching artworks from 1500 to 1800, James Hall; What is 'presence'?, Andrew Harrison; Trompe l'oeil painting and the deceived viewer, Michael Leja; The representation of 'soul' by Rembrandt, John Nash; Amphiaraos present: images and healing pilgrimage in classical Greece, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis; Wonders taken for signs: rethinking the 'fetish', Cesare Poppi; The image of the Roman emperor, Peter Stewart; Sound observer and ways of representing presences, Eugene Y. Wang, Bibliography; Index.