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Book Review
Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 333–334
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Reviewer:
Long, Christopher (Long, Christopher)
Subjects
dates:
1900-1949
places:
Vienna
subjects:
Women artists / Designers / Austrian art / Feminism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gestalterinnen: Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit Edited by Elana Shapira and Anne-Katrin Rossberg. 248 pp. incl. 46 col. + 51 b. & w. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2023), £56.80. ISBN 978–3–11–077188–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Vase, by Vally Wieselthier. c.1920. Ceramic, 52 by 26.5 cm. (Wien Museum, Vienna).
Exhibition Review
Mainie Jellett (1897–1944): Translation and Rotation
03/2022 | 1428 | 164
Pages: 284-287
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Reviewer:
Horne, Victoria (Horne, Victoria)
Subjects
artists:
Jellett, Mainie
dates:
2020-2030
dates:
1900-1949
museums and institutions:
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Great Britain
subjects:
Irish art / Women artists / Modernism / Synthetic Cubist
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Mainie Jellett (1897–1944): Translation and Rotation Ulster Museum, Belfast 29th October 2021–1st May 2022 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Abstract, by Mainie Jellett. 1922. Oil on canvas, 91.9 by 73 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
Attributed works:
2. Seated female nude, by Mainie Jellett. 1921–22. Oil on canvas, 56.3 by 46.2 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
Attributed works:
3. Study for religious abstract, by Mainie Jellett. c.1932. Pencil on paper, 50.4 by 38.2 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
Attributed works:
4. Painting, by Mainie Jellett. 1938. Oil on canvas, 76 by 64.6 cm. (Ulster Museum, National Museums NI).
Book Review
Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism / Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur und Wiener Moderne. Edited by Elana Shapira
12/2019 | 1401 | 161
Pages: 1069-1070
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Reviewer:
Wieber, Sabine (Wieber, Sabine)
Subjects
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1949
places:
Vienna
subjects:
Austrian architecture / Austrian painting / Austrian sculpture / Design / Modernism / Jewish / Patrons
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism / Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur und Wiener Moderne Edited by Elana Shapira. 475 pp. incl. 112 col. + b. & w. ills. (Böhlau Verlag, Vienna and Cologne, 2018), £35.72. ISBN 978–3–205–20634–7. | :
Book Review
Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys. Edited by Catherine Hammond and Mary Kisler; Finding Frances Hodgkins. By Mary Kisler
09/2019 | 1398 | 161
Pages: 790-792
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Reviewer:
Stocker, Mark (Stocker, Mark)
Subjects
artists:
Hodgkins, Frances
dates:
1900-1949
museums and institutions:
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
places:
New Zealand
subjects:
British art / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Still life in front of a courtyard (Willy Lott’s cottage), by Frances Hodgkins. c.1930. Oil on canvas, 7.12 by 7.12 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. By Allison Morehead
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 94-95
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
art literature:
Germain, Alphonse / Zola, Emile / Poe, Edgar Allan
artists:
Denis, Maurice / Vuillard, Edouard / Strindberg, August / Munch, Edvard / Bonnard, Pierre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1890-1899 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
Europe
subjects:
French painting / Norwegian / Swedish painting / Symbolist movement / Art theory / Science / Psychology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Children's art / Outsider art / Writings / Literature / Translations / Nudes / Landscapes (visual works) / Dreams / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study for Décor, by Maurice Denis. c.1890–91. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 31.2 by 24.7 cm. (Private collection).
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.
Attributed works:
2. Improvisation 10, by Vasily Kandinsky. 1910. Canvas, 120 by 140 cm. (Fondation Beyeler, Basel; photograph courtesy Peter Schibli).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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.
Book Review
Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Francoist Spain. By Paula Barreiro López
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1076
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Reviewer:
Tusell García, Genoveva (Tusell García, Genoveva)
Subjects
art literature:
Restany, Pierre / Argan, Giulio Carlo
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
media:
Paintings / Books
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Art criticism / Criticism / Cultural history / Writings / Exhibitions / Biennials / Competitions / Aesthetics / Abstract art / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939) / Cold War / Politics / Fascism / Marxism / Avant-garde
Article
Hope in time of war: George Clausen’s ‘Renaissance’ rediscovered
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 938-945
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Author:
McConkey, Kenneth (McConkey, Kenneth)
Subjects
artists:
Clausen, George / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / Wollen, William Barnes / Jack, Richard / Mostyn, Thomas Edwin / Olivier, Herbert Arnould / Lavery, John / Brangwyn, Frank / Sickert, Walter / Orpen, William
artists:
Rousseau, Victor
dates:
1900-1949 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain / The Imperial Arts League, London, Great Britain / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Belgium / Great Britain / London
subjects:
British painting / World War (1914-1918) / Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) / War / Soldiers / Ruins / Damage to works of art / Lost works / Art criticism / Criticism / Critical Reception / Exhibitions / Exhibition reviews / Influence / Identification / Sitters / Allegory / Allegorical figures / Symbolism (artistic concept) / Colour / Style / Neo-classicism / Realism / Murals / Figure paintings / Portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Flower pieces / Workers / Nudes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Renaissance, by George Clausen. 1915. Canvas, 152.4 by 177.8 cm. (Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on deposit in the Belgian ambassador’s residence, London).
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
11. Figure study, by George Clausen. 1914–15. Graphite on paper, 24 by 39 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
12. Youth mourning, by George Clausen. 1916. Canvas, 91.4 by 91.4 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Primavera, by George Clausen. 1914. Canvas, 91.4 by 71.7 cm. (Private collection; photo Christie’s, London).
Attributed works:
3. Wounded, London Hospital, by John Lavery. 1915. Canvas, 176 by 201 cm. (Dundee Art Galleries and Museums Collection).
Attributed works:
4. Study for ‘Renaissance’, by George Clausen. 1915. Graphite on paper, 25.7 by 18.4 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
5. Study for ‘Renaissance’, by George Clausen. 1915. Graphite on paper, 38.1 by 32.3 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
6. L’Esperance, by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. 1872. Canvas, 70.5 by 82 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. Sowing new seed (for the Board of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland), by William Orpen. 1913. Canvas, 137 by 137 cm. (Mildura Arts Centre, Australia).
Attributed works:
8. St Francis at prayer, by Frederick Cayley Robinson and Winifred Dalley, from H.E. Manning: The Little Flowers of St Francis of Asissi, London 1915.
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Victor Rousseau, by George Clausen, c.1915. Graphite on paper, 39.2 by 28.8 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Article
The making of Picasso’s ‘Woman in a long dress’
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 920-927
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Subjects
art literature:
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry / Spies, Werner / Eluard, Paul / Read, Peter / Leiris, Michel / Cocteau, Jean
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Brassaï / González, Julio / Rousseau, Henri / Maar, Dora / Duncan, David Douglas
collectors and dealers:
Loeb, Pierre
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
media:
Sculpture / Plaster / Bronzes / Assemblages / Metalwork / Photographs / Art objects
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / World War (1939-1945) / Portraits / Self-portraits / Identification / Modernism / Neo-classicism / Kouroi / Visual sources / Casts (sculpture) / Studios (work spaces)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Woman in a long dress, by Pablo Picasso. Here dated 1941–42. Bronze, 161.3 by 53.7 by 45.7 cm. (Private collection; photograph W.B. Dewey; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of the artist’s mother, by Pablo Picasso. 1896. Pastel on paper, 49.8 by 39 cm. (Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Bridgeman Images; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of Yadwiga, by Henri Rousseau. 1895. Canvas, 160 by 105 cm. (Musée Picasso, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Picasso and his stove, rue des Grands Augustins, by Brassaï. 1939. (Private collection / Photo © Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Picasso’s Head of a bull with an arm from Easter Island, by Brassaï. 1943. Gelatin silver print, 17.7 by 24 cm. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
7. Head of a bull, by Pablo Picasso. 1942. Bicycle saddle and handlebars, 33.5 by 43.5 by 19 cm. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
8. ‘L’Aubade’ and ‘Woman in a long dress’ in Picasso’s rue des Grands Augustins studio, Paris, by Brassaï. 1946. Photograph. (Musée National Picasso, Paris; © DACS London, 2018).
Attributed works:
9. Front steps of La Californie with Picasso and the welder at work, by David Douglas Duncan. 1957. (From D.D. Duncan: Goodbye Picasso, New York 1975, p.65).
Western art unattributed:
2. Female statue, known as the Woman of Auxerre, c.640–630 BC. Limestone, height 75 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
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