Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Illustrations xv
6. Introduction xix
7. Editing Identity
8. 1. Mr Blank Gets Concretized 3
9. 2. Striking Through the Artist’s Body: Ekphrasis in Bellori’s Life of Caravaggio 15
10. Editing the Body of History
11. 3. An Edited Past: Aegean Prehistory and Its Texts 33
12. 4. The Trouble with Painting, the Image (less) Text 67
13. Spectacular Editing
14. 5. Concealing Spectacles: Childbirth and Visuality in Early Modern France 95
15. 6. Edit In ... Edit Out: A Performance/Intervention 115
16. Aura and Edit
17. 7. Editing Armageddon 127
18. 8. Editing the Image: Two On-site/Online Exhibitions 153
19. Institutions of Art and Editorial Practices
20. 9. The Art Museum as Installation: An Interpretation of the Place of Matisse’s The Joy of Life in the Barnes Foundation 167
21. 10. Editing In vs. Editing Out: World Art Studies and the Pathologies of Academe 183
22. Conclusions
23. 11. ‘Editorial’ Afterthoughts 199
24. Envoi What Remains: The Nachleben of the Invisible 207
25. Index 233
26. Previous Conference Publications 237