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Exhibition Review
Piero della Francesca: Monarch of Painting. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 233-235
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Reviewer:
Nethersole, Scott (Nethersole, Scott)
Subjects
art literature:
Artists' writings
artists:
Piero della Francesca
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Oil painting (technique) / Tempera
museums and institutions:
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
subjects:
Altarpieces / Devotional images / Perspective / Reconstructions / Attributions / Space (form and composition concept) / Renaissance art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Portrait of a boy, attributed to Piero della Francesca. c.1480. Tempera on panel, 41 by 27.5 cm. (Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg). 5. Sigismondo
Attributed works:
5. Sigismondo Malatesta, by Piero della Francesca. 1450s. Oil and tempera on panel, 44 by 34 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Attributed works:
6. The Annunciation, by Piero della Francesca. 1459–68. Oil and tempera on panel, 338 by 230 cm. (Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Perugia; exh. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Book Review
Albrecht Dürer: Documentary Biography. By Jeffrey Ashcroft
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 169-170
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
1450-1499 / 1500-1549
media:
Documents / Inscriptions / Paintings / Woodcuts / Prints
places:
Germany / Nuremberg
subjects:
German painting / Artists' writings / Art theory / Biographies / Poetry / Correspondence / Translations / Language / Historical context
Book Review
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet. By Thomas Dilworth
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 95-96
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Reviewer:
James, Merlin (James, Merlin; James, Merlin Ingli; Ingli James, Merlin; J., M.)
Subjects
artists:
Jones, David, 1895-1974
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Paintings
patrons:
Sutherland, Helen / Clark, Kenneth
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Poetry / Artists' writings / Psychology / World War (1914-1918) / Catholicism / Patronage / Competitions / Biographies / Writings / Interviews
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
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism. By Whitney Chadwick
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1075-1076
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Reviewer:
Cheale, Matthew (Cheale, Matthew)
Subjects
art literature:
Breton, André / Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850
artists:
Carrington, Leonora / Cahun, Claude / Agar, Eileen / Fini, Leonor / Penrose, Valentine / Paalen, Alice / Kahlo, Frida / Lamba, Jacqueline / Moore, Marcel / Miller, Lee
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Books / Documents / Photographs / Paintings
places:
France / Mexico
subjects:
Artists' writings / Correspondence / Biographies / Poetry / Surrealism / Women / Women artists / Gender / Magic / Occultism / Mysticism / Alchemy / Nazism / World War (1939-1945) / Collaborators / Literature
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Jacqueline Lamba and Frida Kalho in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. 1938. Photograph. (Private Collection; © Association Atelier André Breton and ADAGP).
Publication Received
Louise Bourgeois, An Unfolding Portrait: Prints, Books and the Creative Process. By Deborah Wye
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 987
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Reviewer:
Parton, John (Parton, John)
Subjects
artists:
Bourgeois, Louise
dates:
1900-1999 / 1950-1999 / 2000-2099
media:
Prints
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Artists' writings / Printmaking
Book Review
On Weaving: New Expanded Edition. By Anni Albers
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 611-612
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Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Anni / Gropius, Walter / Albers, Josef
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Textiles / Drawings / Diagrams / Books
places:
Germany / United States
subjects:
Artists' writings / Artists' books / Bauhaus / Colour / Design / Reproductions / Originality / Collecting
subjects:
Pre-Columbian (American) / Mesoamerican
Book Review
Donald Judd Writings. Edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray
11/2017 | 1376 | 159
Pages: 922
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Reviewer:
Rider, Alistair (Rider, Alistair)
Subjects
art literature:
Artists' writings
artists:
Judd, Donald
dates:
1900-1999
styles:
Minimalism / American art
Book Review
Man Ray: Writings on Art. Edited by Jennifer Mundy
07/2017 | 1372 | 159
Pages: 565
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Reviewer:
Atkin, Will (Atkin, Will)
Subjects
artists:
Man Ray
dates:
1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1979
subjects:
Artists' writings / Correspondence / Essays / Interviews / Notebooks / Dada / Surrealism
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