Table of Contents

Huang Zhuan | General Preface

Wu Hung | Editorial Preface

In Focus

Paul Taylor | From the Rise of Civilisation to the Rise of Capitalism: the Warburg Institute’s Photographic Collection

Pamela Patton | Iconography and Evolution at the Index of Medieval Art

Hans Brandhorst | A Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Why the Use of Iconclass Will Make Artificial Intelligence Smarter

Zhang Hongxing | Some General Principles of the Chinese Iconography Thesaurus

Zhang Binbin LaoZhu | Digital Technologies in Image Studies

Theories and Criticisms

Fan Baiding | The Birth of the Photographic Collection at the Warburg Institute

Zhang Qian | From Card Index to Digital Database: A Hundred Years of The Index of Christian Art at Princeton University

Gao Jin | The Challenges of Art Image Search from the Perspective of Digital Humanities

Guo Weiqi | The “Interpretive Circle” of Chinese Art: Remarks on Several Sources of Symbolism in Chinese Images

Frontiers

Lin Yixin | “Changing Frontiers: Iconographic Archives in the Past and Present”: A Conference Report

Lena Liepe | The Study of the Iconography and Iconology of Medieval Art

Book Reviews

Huang Yan | Cesare Ripa’s Personifications and the First English Edition of Iconographia, or Moral Emblems, with a Review of Its Chinese Translation

Qi Xiaoqing | Beyond Iconology: Review of Wang Huimin’s On Buddhist Images in Dunhuang

Xie Bo | A New Approach of Daoist Art: Review of Shih-shan Susan Huang’s Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

Authors’ and Translators’ Biographies

Call for Papers | World 3: Art History and Globalization