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Book Review
Women Artists in Expressionism: From Empire to Emancipation
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 671-672
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Reviewer:
Weikop, Christian (Weikop, Christian)
Subjects
subjects:
Women artists / Art critics / Patrons / Collectors / German art / Expressionism / Blaue Reiter / Brücke
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Women Artists in Expressionism: From Empire to Emancipation By Shulamith Behr. 304 pp. incl. 170 col. + 42 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2022), £50. ISBN 978–0–691–04462–0. | :
Book Review
Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 101-102
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Reviewer:
Silberman, Robert (Silberman, Robert; Silberman, Robert B.)
Subjects
artists:
Pasolini, Pier Paolo (1922–1975)
subjects:
Poetry / Films (motion pictures) / Art critics / Art theory / Criticism / Culture / Capitalism / Politics / Italian art
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Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism By Ara H. Merjian. 304 pp. incl. 175 col. + b. & w. ills. (University of Chicago Press, 2020), £36. ISBN 978–0–226–65527–7. | :
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8. Intellettuale: ‘Il Vangelo secondo Matteo’ di/ su Pier Paolo Pasolini, by Fabio Mauri. 1975. Performed at Galleria Comunale, Bologna, 31st May 1975. (Courtesy Stefano Masotti, Estate of Fabio Mauri and Hauser & Wirth; photograph Antonio Masotti).
Book Review
Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern
08/2022 | 1433 | 164
Pages: 828
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Reviewer:
Bade, Patrick (Bade, Patrick)
Subjects
subjects:
Jewish / Collectors / Art dealers / Art critics
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Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern By Charles Dellheim. 688 pp. incl. 24 col. + 94 b. & w. ills. (Brandeis University Press, Waltham, 2021), $40. ISBN 978–1–68458–056–9. | :
Book Review
The Story of (my) Exhibitions
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 234
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Reviewer:
Holman, Martin (Holman, Martin)
Subjects
subjects:
Celant, Germano / Curators / Art historians / Art critics / Exhibitions / Italian art / Modernism / Arte povera
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The Story of (my) Exhibitions By Germano Celant. 560 pp incl. 320 b. & w. ills. (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2021), €70. ISBN 978–88–366–4766–8. | :
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9. Installation view of Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918–1943 at Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2018. (© Filippo De Pisis, by SIAE 2021; © Massimo Campigli, by SIAE 2021; courtesy Fondazione Prada, Milan; photograph Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti).
Book Review
The Ends of Art Criticism
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 95-96
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Reviewer:
Bowman, Matthew (Bowman, Matthew)
Subjects
subjects:
Art literature / Art criticism / Art critics
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The Ends of Art Criticism By Patricia Bickers. 144 pp. incl. 10 b. & w. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2021), £19.99. ISBN 978–1–84822–426–1. | :
Obituary
Sir John Richardson (1924–2019)
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 793-794
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Author:
Cowling, Elizabeth (Cowling, Elizabeth)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges
collectors and dealers:
Richardson, John
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1959 / 1960-1979 / 1980-1989 / 1990-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
subjects:
Biographies / Art history / Art dealers / Art critics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Pablo Picasso with John Richardson at Vauvenargues in 1959. (Photograph Jacqueline Picasso; courtesy Gagosian).
Article
Vasily Kandinsky and the Formal method
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1016-1023
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Author:
Bowlt, John E. (Bowlt, John E.)
Subjects
art literature:
Punin, Nikolay / Tarabukin, Nikolay
artists:
Kandinsky, Wassily / Popova, Liubov / Rodchenko, Aleksander / Stepanova, Varvara / Malevich, Kazimir / Tatlin, Vladimir / Gan, Aleksey / Burlyuk, David / Kulbin, Nikolay
dates:
1900-1949 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences), Moscow, Russia
places:
Russia
subjects:
Russian painting / Russian School / Russian Revolution, Russia / Communism / Marxism / Formalism / Formal analysis / Art theory / Criticism / Art criticism / Art critics / Artists' writings / Literature / Language / Music / Mysticism / Occultism / Spirituality / Science / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Colour / Constructivist / Abstract art / Aesthetics / Taste (aesthetics) / Perception / Study and teaching / Engineering
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Elementary life of the primary colour and its dependence on the simplest locale, by Vasily Kandinsky. Illustration to the lecture ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ delivered by Nikolai Kul’bin on Kandinsky’s behalf at the All-Russian Congress of Artists, St Petersburg, 29th and 31st December 1911. Published in Russian in I. Repin et al.: Trudy Vserossiiskogo s’ezda khudozhnikov (Transactions of the All-Russian Congress of artists), Petrograd 1914, I, pp.76–77.
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2. Improvisation 10, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910. Canvas, 120 by 140 cm. (Fondation Beyeler, Basel; photograph courtesy Peter Schibli).
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3. Tsikl lektsii (Cycle of lectures), by Nikolay Punin. Petrograd 1920. Cover designed by Kazimir Malevich. (Photograph courtesy Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Black lines, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1913. 129.4 by 131.1 cm. (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Painting with the red spot, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1914. Canvas, 130 by 130 cm. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Non-western art unattributed:
4. Members of RAKhN (Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences) in the building of Svomas (Free State Art Studios), Moscow, June 1921. From left to right: Robert Fal’k, Evsei Shor, Nikolai Uspensky, Vasily Kandinsky, Evgenii Pavlov and Aleksandr Shenshin. Reproduced in C. Derouet and J. Boissel, eds.: exh. cat. Œuvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou) 1984, p.156.
Publication Received
The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics. Edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall and Andrew Yip
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 986-987
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Reviewer:
Thomas, Sarah (Thomas, Sarah)
Subjects
art literature:
Smith, Bernard
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Paintings / Prints / Drawings
places:
Australia
subjects:
Art historians / Art critics / Collectors / Politics / Cultural history / Anthropology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Social history / Globalism / Art theory / Visual culture / Science
Article
From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Author:
Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive
artists:
Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa
artists:
Donatello / Bate, Francis
dates:
1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
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2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
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3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
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4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
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5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
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