Tributes to Jean Michel Massing : towards a global art history / edited by Mark Stocker and Phillip Lindley.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Phillip Lindley -- Memento mori or Eternal Modernism? The Bauhaus at MoMA, 1938 / Barry Bergdoll -- Philander Colutius and the Visualisation of Natural Philosophy / Susanna Berger -- Stefano della Bella in Shoreditch: the monument of Elizabeth Benson / Roger Bowdler -- Transgressions in the House of the Chief: Hilimondregeraya village in South Nias Indonesia / Jerome Feldman -- Calvin in Mondrian's Colour Theory / Victoria George -- The Production of History: Famiano Strada's De Bello Belgico / Meredith Hale -- Preaching the Dance of Death: The Reverend Marcin Krajewski's Cemetery Chapel at Zambrów / Aleksandra Koutny Jones -- The Block-book Biblia Pauperum as a Source for Printed Borders in France, Germany and England / Berthold Kress -- The Poetics of the Tudor Beast / Phillip Lindley -- Ernest van Veen and the "Black But Beautiful" bride / Elizabeth Mc Grath -- A Cautionary Tale: The History of Eighteenth-Century Architecture in France / Robin Middleton -- The After-Life of Some Models by Alessando Algardi / Jennifer Montagu -- Rude Encounters: The "Jolly Nigger Bank" as a Visual Problem from America to Denmark / Temi Odumosu -- Abraham Mathijs, Whale-Fisherman: Author of the First True Topographical Drawing of North America? / Greg Rubinstein -- The Rubens at King's / Charles Saumarez Smith -- An Ethnographical Divertissement on Tribal Art and Picasso's First Cubism / Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti -- The Sale of Emil Nolde's New Guinea Watercolours to the German Imperial Colonial Office / Aya Soika -- Maori, Modernism and Monumentality: Molly Macalister's Maori Warrior / Mark Stocker -- 'Mass' and 'Massing' from Karel van Mander to Roger Fry / Paul Taylor -- "The Elements": A Fresco Cycle by George Frederic Watts / Nicholas Tromans -- Austria in Die Zeitung: The Instrumentalisation of Émigré Newspapers during World War Two and the Subversive Power of Cartoons / Jutta Vinzent.

"This book is a Festschrift to honour Jean Michel Massing, Professor of the History of Art at the University of Cambridge, on his retirement and contains essays from 21 of his colleagues and former students. An indispensable study for all admirers of Jean Michel Massing's work, this publication includes essays reflecting some of the many fields of research that he has explored throughout his academic career. Twenty-one of Professor Massing's colleagues and former students have contributed to this volume on the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Art at the University of Cambridge. The global aspect of Jean Michel Massing's oeuvre forms the binding element between the various topics covered in this collection, paying homage to the interdisciplinary nature of his approach to the field of art history. Defying strictly linear, spatio-temporal trajectories, this volume is an ongoing conversation with Professor Massing, ambitiously taking his brilliant work as the inspiration and basis for the further development of a global history of art."--Publisher's website.