Contents1. Palaeovisions: Interpreting the Imagery of Ice-Age Europe - Margaret Conkey, University of California at Berkeley2. The Strength of Columns and the Weakness of Theory - John Onians, University of East Anglia3. Rape or Restitution of the Past? Interpreting Spolia - Dale Kinney, Bryn mawr College4. Holy Images and Other Images - David Freedberg, Columbia University5. Discourses of Representation in 10th and 11th Century China - Martin J. Powers, The University of Michigan6. Toward an Aesthetic of Persian Painting - Oleg Grabar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton7. Christ in His Beauty and Pain, Concepts of Body and Image in an Age of Transition (Late Middle Ages & Renaissance) - Gerhard Wolf, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome9. Imitation, Representation and the Study of Garden Art - John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania10. Jack Bush and Clement Greenberg: The Empire and the Limits of Theory - Natasha Staller, Amherst College11. Allegorical Gardens of Desire in Modernity: A Gendered Perspective - Gisela Ecker, Universität Paderborn12. Wining and Dining on the Temple of Athena at Assos - Bonna Wescoat, Emory University13. Interpreting Kandinsky's Iconography: Sources in Ethnography and Shamanism - Peg Weiss, Syracuse University