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Book Review
Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1092–3
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Reviewer:
Heardman, Adam (Heardman, Adam)
Subjects
subjects:
Contemporary art / Text / Semiotics / Language / Digital technology
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art Edited by Simon Hunegs et al. with an introduction by Evan Moffitt. 288 pp. incl. 525 col. + b. & w. ills. (Phaidon, London and New York, 2024), £49.95. ISBN 978–1–83866–546–3. | :
Exhibition Review
Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 84–87
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Reviewer:
Loreti, Silvia (Loreti, Silvia)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Gris, Juan / Matisse, Henri / Warhol, Andy / Paik, Nam June / Stieglitz, Alfred / Duchamp, Marcel / Van Vechten, Carl / Ligon, Glenn
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
subjects:
Stein, Gertrude / Patronage / Collecting / Language / Aesthetics / French art / American art / Music
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 13th September 2023– 28th January 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Gertrude Stein, by Andy Warhol. 1980. Acrylic and screen print on canvas, 101.9 by 101.9 cm. (Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, and ADAGP, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
Attributed works:
27. Gertrude Stein, by Nam June Paik. 1990. Antique television monitors, mixed media and video, 248.9 by 195.9 by 94 cm. (Nam June Paik Estate; courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
Attributed works:
28. “Untitled” (Alice B. Toklas’ and Gertrude Stein’s Grave, Paris), by Felix Gonzalez- Torres. 1992. Chromogenic print pasted on cardboard, 12 by 17.8 cm. (Estate of Felix Gonzalez- Torres; private collection; photograph Suzanne Nagy).
Exhibition Review
The Weight of Words
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1228-1231
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Reviewer:
Thomas, Greg (Thomas, Greg)
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dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Great Britain
subjects:
Poetry / Language / Sculpture / Contemporary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Weight of Words Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 7th July–26th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Twelve questions, by Bhanu Kapil. 2001/23. Printed vinyl and oranges. (Courtesy the artist; photograph Rob Harris; exh. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds).
Attributed works:
11. Installation view of The Weight of Words at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2023, showing Words come from ears, by Shilpa Gupta. 2018. Motion flapboard, 43 by 244 by 13 cm. (Photograph Min Young Lim).
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Dark water, burning world 151 moons and counting…, by Issam Kourbaj. 2016. Repurposed bicycle steel mudguards, extinguished matches and clear resin. (Photograph Rob Harris; exh. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds).
Book Review
Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 722
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Reviewer:
Parlett, Jack (Parlett, Jack)
Subjects
artists:
Matta-Clark, Gordon
subjects:
American art / Conceptual art / Language / Installations (visual works) / Architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics By Frances Richard. 560 pp. incl. 32 col. + 20 b. & w. ills. (University of California Press, Oakland, 2019), £37. ISBN 978–0–520–29909–2. | :
Exhibition Review
Ketty La Rocca: Considering that many…
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 619-623
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Reviewer:
Holman, Martin (Holman, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
La Rocca, Ketty
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Germany
subjects:
Italian art / Women artists / Women / Feminism / Language
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Ketty La Rocca: Considering that many… Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg 1st February–5th July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Installation view of Ketty La Rocca: Considering that many… at Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, 2020. (Ketty La Rocca Estate; exh. Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; photograph Guillaume Baeriswyl).
Attributed works:
23. Pain …as nature creates, by Ketty La Rocca. 1964–65. Collage on paper, 32 by 25 cm. (Ketty La Rocca Estate; exh. Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; photograph Guillaume Baeriswyl).
Attributed works:
24. Photo 13, reductions, by Ketty La Rocca. 1973. Magazine cover and ink on paper, each part 33.3 by 23.8 cm. (Ketty La Rocca Estate; exh. Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; photograph Guillaume Baeriswyl).
Attributed works:
25. Still from Appendix for a Petition, by Ketty La Rocca. 1972. 9’30” (Ketty La Rocca Estate; exh. Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; photograph Guillaume Baeriswyl).
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
Exhibition Review
Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue. Whitechapel Gallery, London
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 80-83
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
artists:
Elmgreen, Michael / Dragset, Ingar
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Installations (visual works) / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Conceptual art / Swimming pools / Metaphor / Language / Literature / Collectors / Statues / Fragments / Casts (sculpture) / Urban history / Christian iconography / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. The Whitechapel pool, by Elmgreen & Dragset. 2018. Installation (Photograph Jack Hems; exh. Whitechapel Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
29. Too heavy, by Elmgreen & Dragset. 2017.  Aluminium with lacquer paint and trampoline, 170 by 170 cm. (Courtesy of König Gallery; photograph Roman Maerz; exh. Whitechapel Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
30. Modern Moses, by Elmgreen & Dragset. 2006. Installation (Photograph Doug Peters; exh. Whitechapel Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
31. Installation view of Elmgreen & Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue at Whitechapel Gallery, London (Photograph Doug Peters).
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).
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.
Editorial
The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize
12/2017 | 1377 | 159
Pages: 955
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Subjects
subjects:
Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize / International Art English (IAE) / Art literature / Language
Book Review
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint. By Mary Jacobus
09/2017 | 1374 | 159
Pages: 736
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Reviewer:
Godfrey, Tony (Godfrey, Tony)
Subjects
artists:
Twombly, Cy
subjects:
Poetry
subjects:
Artists' books
subjects:
Language
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint. By Mary Jacobus | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
58. Copy marked by Cy Twombly of G. Seferis 'Three Secret Poems', in M.B. Raizis: Greek Poetry Translations: Views, Texts, Reviews, Athens 1983, pp. 164-65. (Photograoh British School at Rome)
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