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Obituary
David Anfam (1955–2024)
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 75-6
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Author:
James, Merlin (James, Merlin; James, Merlin Ingli; Ingli James, Merlin; J., M.)
Subjects
artists:
Still, Clyfford / Rothko, Mark / Pollock, Jackson
subjects:
Anfam, David, London, Great Britain / Art historians / scholars / Abstract Expressionism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still from Of First and Last, by Ron and Merial Kenley. 2020. Video, duration 1 hour 32 minutes. (Courtesy Ron Kenley).
Book Review
Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 72-3
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Reviewer:
Davoli, Silvia (Davoli, Silvia)
Subjects
subjects:
Cavalcaselle, G. B. / Crowe, J. A.
subjects:
Art history / art history publishing / art history publishing / Art historians / Connoisseurs
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Il giovane Cavalcaselle: ‘Il più curioso, il più intrepido, il più appassionato di tutti gli affamati di pittura’ By Giovanni Mazzaferro. 244 pp. incl. 16 col. ills. (Olschki, Florence, 2023), €26. ISBN 978–88–22–26888–4. | :
Obituary
Georg Himmelheber (1929–2024)
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1287–8
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Author:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Subjects
subjects:
Himmelheber, Georg / Furniture / Art historians / Furniture History Society / Biedermeier
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Georg Himmelheber. (Photograph Himmelheber family).
Attributed works:
2. Writing desk (the Stroganov desk), by David Roentgen. c.1785. Oak, cherry and walnut wood, birch burl wood veneer, brass, bronze and gold, 115.5 by 113 by 60.5 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; permanent loan of the HypoVereinsbank, Member of UniCredit).
Editorial
The life cycle of art history
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1099
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Great Britain / Warburg Institute, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Art history / Art historians / Students / Universities
Book Review
Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise
11/2024 | 1460 | 166
Pages: 1199–1200
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Reviewer:
Centanni, Monica (Centanni, Monica)
Subjects
art literature:
Essays
museums and institutions:
Warburg Institute, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Warburg, Aby / Art historians / Art history / Art historiography / Art theory / Conferences
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Aby Warburg 150: Work, Legacy, Promise Edited by David Freedberg and Claudia Wedepohl. 464 pp. incl. 30 col. + 70 b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2024), £42.50. ISBN 978–3–11–061256–1. | :
Obituary
Alastair David Laing (1944–2024)
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1094–6
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Author:
Rowell, Christopher (Rowell, Christopher)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François
museums and institutions:
National Trust
subjects:
Laing, Alastair, London, Great Britain / Art historians / Portraiture / Country houses / Collections / Displays / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. La vie champêtre, by François Boucher. c.1728. Oil on canvas, 61 by 48 cm. (Belton House, Lincolnshire).
Attributed works:
2. Alastair Laing in in the Long Gallery at Osterley Park, where he was responsible for the hang, July 2001. (© Lucy Dickens; National Portrait Gallery, London).
Book Review
Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944
06/2024 | 1455 | 166
Pages: 663–664
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Reviewer:
Goodpasture, Eliza (Goodpasture, Eliza)
Subjects
subjects:
Rosenau, Helen / Art historians / Art history / Feminism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 By Griselda Pollock, with contributions by Adrian Rifkin and Rachel Dickson. 400 pp. incl. 140 col. and b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2023), £35. ISBN 978–1–913107–41–3. | :
Obituary
Allen Staley (1935–2023)
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 105–106
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Author:
Gere, Charlotte (Gere, Charlotte)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Columbia University, New York, United States
subjects:
Staley, Allen, New York , United States / Art historians / Victorian art / Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / American art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Allen Staley, photographed at Carcassonne in 1998. (Courtesy of the Staley family).
Article
Edith Hoffmann’s early years in England, 1934–38
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1320–1329
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Author:
Yapou-Kromholz, Yonna (Yapou-Kromholz, Yonna)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939
museums and institutions:
New Burlington Galleries (art gallery), London, Great Britain
places:
London
sources:
Archives
subjects:
Hoffmann, Edith (E. H.) / Art historians / The Burlington Magazine / German art / Expressionism / Austrian art / Read, Herbert (H. R.) / Exhibitions / art history publishing
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Edith Hoffmann, photograph by Franz Pfemfert, Photo Dorit, Paris. c.1937–38. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
Attributed works:
2. Elizabeth Senior. Photograph, c.1935. (Courtesy of Sally Senior Mellersh).
Attributed works:
3. Eliezer Yapou. Photograph, 1938. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
Attributed works:
4. Herbert Read, by Howard Coster. Photograph, 1934. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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5. The Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, by Ewan Phillips. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 by 23.2 cm. (© The Estate of Ewan Phillips; Tate Archive; M03751).
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6. The Exhibition of 20th Century German Art, New Burlington Galleries, London, by Ewan Phillips. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 16.4 by 23.2 cm. (© The Estate of Ewan Phillips; Tate Archive; M03754).
Attributed works:
7 and 8. Details of Figs.5 and 6, showing Edith in the New Burlington Galleries.
Attributed works:
9. Edith Hoffmann and Eliezer Yapou in Paris. Photograph, 1935. (Edith Hoffmann family collection, Jerusalem).
Obituary
Kavita Singh (1964–2023)
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1379–1380
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Author:
Mathur, Saloni (Mathur, Saloni)
Subjects
subjects:
Singh, Kavita / Art historians / Museology / South Asian / Mughal School
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Kavita Singh, photographed at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2018. (Photograph Naman P. Ahuja).
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