This volume includes the editorial 'Can the referent abscond with its own representation?' by Thomas Crow; 'Ivory Towers' by Richard Taws; 'Are shadows transparent?' by Roberto Casati; 'The hidden witness of everything' by David Doris; 'Absconding in plain sight' by Roberta Bonetti; 'Immanence out of sight' by Joyce Cheng; 'A concrete experience of nothing' by William Smith; 'Believing in art' by Irene Small; 'Repositories of the unconditional' by Gabriele Guercio; 'Behind the colonnade' by Clemente Marconi; and, 'The myth of 'unmade' images and the art of absconding' by Gerhard Wolf. It also includes 'Moving eyes' by Bissera Pentcheva; 'Interior motives' by Melissa Katz; 'A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned' by Rebecca Zorach; 'Out of sight, yet still in place' by Minou Schraven; 'Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem' by Irina Oryshkevich; 'Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried' by Claudia Brittenham; 'Apparition painting' by Yukio Lippit; 'Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs' by Wu Hung; 'Seeing through dead eyes' by Jonathan Hay; 'On the 'true body' of Huineng' by Michele Matteini; 'Boxed in' by Miranda Lash; 'Digitalisation' by Boris Groys; and 'Des figures et des categories' by Remo Guidieri.