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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsSusan HillerAmerican-born Susan Hiller lives in London, where she began her artistic career in the early 1970s. Her commitment to exploring “the unconscious” of our culture is often cited as a major influence on younger artists. She works in a broad range of media and exhibits and publishes internationally [www.susanhiller.org].Spike BucklowSpike Bucklow trained as a chemist, made puppets for the film industry, and is now a conservation scientist. He teaches and undertakes research, mainly on old master paintings, at the Hamilton Kerr Institute. His follow-up to The Alchemy of Paint has the working title The Riddle of the Image [Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, Whittlesford CB22 4NE, U.K., sb10029.cam.ac.uk].Johannes EndresJohannes Endres is visiting associate professor of German at Vanderbilt University. He works on German and European literature in an interdisciplinary perspective. Recent publications are on topoi and metaphors in art, culture, and science; concepts of similarity and resemblance; discourses on generation and inheritance; cultural theories and practices of fetishism [Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University, 2301 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, Tenn. 37235–1567, johannes.endres@vanderbilt.edu].Carlo GinzburgCarlo Ginzburg, now retired, taught at Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His books include The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms; The Enigma of Piero; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; Wooden Eyes; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; and Threads and Traces [Piazza San Martino 1, 40126 Bologna, Italy, ginzburg@history.ucla.edu].Joan KeeJoan Kee is the author of The Urgency of Method: Tansaekhwa and Contemporary Korean Art (2013), the editor of Intersections: Issues in Contemporary Asian Art (2004), and the co-editor of Contemporaneity and Art in Southeast Asia (2011). She teaches modern and contemporary Asian art at the University of Michigan [Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109, jkee@umich.edu].Spyros PapapetrosSpyros Papapetros is an associate professor of theory and historiography at Princeton University. He is the author of On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and the editor of Space as Membrane by Siegfried Ebeling (AA Publications, 2010) [School of Architecture, S-110 Architecture Building, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08544, spapapet@princeton.edu].Adrian RifkinAdrian Rifkin is professor of art writing in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London [Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London SE14 6NW, U.K., www.gai-savoir.net].Joanna RocheJoanna Roche, professor of art history at California State University, Fullerton, investigates contemporary artists with a focus on memory and process. She recently published Tyrannical Angels and Other Love Poems (2011). Roche received the 2002 Art Journal Award from the College Art Association [Department of Visual Arts, California State University, Fullerton, 800 North State College Boulevard, Fullerton, Calif. 92831, jroche@fullerton.edu].Nina RoweNina Rowe is associate professor of art history at Fordham University. Her publications include The Jew, the Cathedral, and the Medieval City: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge, 2011) and (as editor) Medieval Art History Today—Critical Terms, special issue of Studies in Iconography 33 (2012) [Department of Art History and Music, Fordham University, FMH 417A, 441 East Fordham Road, Bronx, N.Y. 10458, nrowe@fordham.edu].Alain SchnappAlain Schnapp is professor of classical archaeology at the University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), specializing in Greek iconography and the cultural history of antiquity. Alongside numerous visiting professorships, he was the first director of the Institut National d'Histoire l'Art and coordinator of the European cultural project Archives of European Archaeology [Université de Paris I/INHA, 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, France].Blake StimsonBlake Stimson teaches contemporary art, the history of photography, and critical theory at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation (MIT Press, 2006) and Citizen Warhol (forthcoming from Reaktion Books) [Department of Art History, m/c 201, Henry Hall 302A, 935 West Harrison, Chicago, Ill. 60607].Robert WilliamsRobert Williams, professor of the history of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Art, Theory, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge, 1997) and Art Theory: An Historical Introduction (Blackwell, 2004; Wiley Blackwell, 2008). With James Elkins he edited Renaissance Theory (Routledge, 2006) [Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106, robertw@arthistory.ucsb.edu].