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Book Review
The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 194–195
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Savage, Elizabeth (Savage, Elizabeth)
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The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain By Esther Chadwick. 248 pp. incl. 200 col. + b. & w. ills. (Paul Mellon Centre, London, 2024), £45. ISBN 978–1–913107–43–7. | :
Exhibition Review
But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 185–187
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Loreti, Silvia (Loreti, Silvia)
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But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism Lenbachhaus, Munich 15th October 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
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25. Installation view of But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, 2024–25. (Courtesy Lenbachhaus, Munich; photograph Lukas Schramm).
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26. From the series Hitlerei (Hitler egg), by WoTi (Kati Horna and Wolf Hamburger). 1936. Gelatin silver print, 11.4 by 16.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Lenbachhaus, Munich).
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27. Totem de la subjectivité blessée II, by Victor Brauner. 1948. Oil on canvas, 91.5 by 72.7 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; exh. Lenbachhaus, Munich).
Book Review
‘Meine Tendenz ist die der Wahrheit’: Otto Griebel (1895–1972): Leben und Werk
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1090–91
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Porstmann, Gisbert (Porstmann, Gisbert)
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‘Meine Tendenz ist die der Wahrheit’: Otto Griebel (1895–1972): Leben und Werk By Johannes Schmidt. 400 pp. incl. numerous col. + b. & w. ills. (Georg Olms Verlag, Baden- Baden, 2022), €88. ISBN 978–3–487–16093–1. | :
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6. Self-portrait in front of Dresden burning, by Otto Griebel. 1945. Oil on canvas, 50.3 by 39.9 cm. (Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig).
Book Review
Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 988-9
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Ventra, Stefania (Ventra, Stefania)
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Restoration as Fabrication of Origins: A Material and Political History of Italian Renaissance Art Edited by Henri de Riedmatten, Fabio Gaffo and Mathilde Jaccard. 190 pp. incl. 92 col. ills. (De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023), £44.50. ISBN 978–3–11–107227–2. | :
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A newly discovered cabinet miniature by Nicholas Hilliard
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 340–347
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Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
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Rutherford, Emma (Rutherford, Emma)
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1. A lady, here identified as Lady Arbella Stuart, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1592. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, stuck down on card, 21.1 by 17.6 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Elizabeth I (the Ditchley Portrait), by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. c.1592. Oil on canvas, 241.3 by 152.4 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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3. Elizabeth I (an example of the ‘mask of youth’), by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1592–1603. Watercolour on vellum, 6.5 by 5.3 cm. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London).
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4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the floral wreath.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the gold armillary spheres decorating the gown.
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6. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of twenty-three months, by an unknown artist. ?1577. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 75.1 by 61.5 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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7. A girl, said to depict Lady Arbella Stuart at the age of thirteen, by an unknown artist. ?1589. Oil on panel, 162.6 by 87.6 cm. (National Trust; Hardwick New Hall, Derbyshire).
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8. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 25.7 by 17.3 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
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9. Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, by the Hilliard workshop. c.1595. Watercolour on vellum, 5.2 by 6.4 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 303–305
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Grant, Catherine (Grant, Catherine)
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Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90 Tate Britain, London 8th November 2023–7th April 2024 | :
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10. Installation view of Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90 at Tate Britain, 2023–24, showing postal art exhibited in Feministo: Portrait of the Artist as a Housewife. (Courtesy Tate; photograph Madeline Buddo).
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11. Banana woman, by Margaret Harrison. 1971. Watercolour, coloured graphite and graphite on paper, 51.8 by 63.7 cm. (© Margaret Harrison; Tate; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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12. The affair, by Bhajan Hunjan. 1987–88. Acrylic on canvas, 122 by 91.5 cm. (© Bhajan Hunjan; Tate; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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Tailored to a conservative taste? The Swedish exhibition at the Royal Academy, 1924
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 145–155
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Stevens, Maryanne (Stevens, Maryanne)
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1. Baron Erik Kule Palmstierna, Minister to the Court of St James, London, by Bassano Ltd. 1921. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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10. Per Hasselberg in his studio, Stockholm, c.1893. He is working on The Frog, a bronze casting of which was included in the RA exhibition. (EU/BT; Alamy Stock Photo).
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11. Karin and Brita, by Carl Larsson. 1893. Watercolour on paper, 45 by 58.5 cm. (Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm; photograph Lars Engelhardt).
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12. The glassware section of The Swedish Exhibition of Industrial Arts and Crafts, at Dorland House, Lower Regent Street, London, 1931. Photograph by Dell & Wainwright. (Dell & Wainwright and RIBA Collections, London).
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13. Europa and the bull, by Carl Milles. 1923–24. Bronze, 78.1 by 66.7 by 33 cm. (Tate).
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2. The Scandinavian artists’ lunch at Café Ledoyen, Paris: varnishing day 1886, by Hugo Birger. 1886. Oil on canvas, 183.5 by 261.5 cm. (Gothenburg Museum of Art).
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3. Prince Eugen painting, by Oscar Björck. 1895. Oil on canvas, 150 by 100 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
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4. A fox family, by Bruno Liljefors. 1886. Oil on canvas, 112 by 218 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
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5. Spanish blacksmiths, by Ernst Josephson. 1882. Oil on canvas, 107.4 by 128.5 cm. (Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo; Bridgeman Images).
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6. Winter night with stars, by Karl Nordström. 1907. Oil on canvas, 128 by 173 cm. (Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm).
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7. Vision: scene from Visby, Gotland, by Richard Bergh. 1894. Oil on canvas, 122 by 209 cm. (Malmö Art Museum; Bridgeman Images).
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8. Outskirts of the town, by Eugene Jansson. 1899. Oil on canvas, 152 by 136 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
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9. Midsummer dance, by Anders Zorn. 1897. Oil on canvas, 140 by 98 cm. (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).
Article
Goya’s ‘Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1300–1304
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Céron-Peña, Mercedes (Céron-Peña, Mercedes)
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1. Self-portrait with Dr Arrieta, by Francisco de Goya. 1820. Oil on canvas, 114.6 by 76.5 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Art; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Detail of Fig.1, showing green and red brushstrokes in the white bedsheet.
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3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the face of the man behind Goya’s left shoulder.
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5. Detail of Fig.1, showing the friar or monk behind Arrieta’s right elbow.
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4. An allegory of Ferdinand VII’s constitutional oath. 1820. Handcoloured engraving, 19.4 by 25 cm. (Ayuntamiento de Madrid; Museo de Historia de Madrid).
Book Review
How the Country House Became English
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1369–1370
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Hodgkinson, Rebekah (Hodgkinson, Rebekah)
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How the Country House Became English By Stephanie Barczewski. 392 pp. incl. 74 col. + b. & w. ills. (Reaktion, London, 2023), £25. ISBN 978–1–78914–760–5. | :
Short Notice
Surrealism: between politics and the picture book
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1117–1123
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Hopkins, David (Hopkins, David)
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Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International 1910–1940. By Effie Rentzou. 408 pp. incl. 37 b. & w. ills. (Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2022), $120. ISBN 978–08–1014507–8. | :
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Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity. Edited by Vivien Greene et al. 272 pp. incl. 212 col. + 21 b. & w. ills. (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, and Prestel, Munich 2022), £40. ISBN 978–3–7913–7814–5. | :
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Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work. By Abigail Susik. 296 pp. incl. 16 col. + 46 b. & w. ills. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2021), £85. ISBN 978–1–5261–5501–6. | :
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1. Woman leaving the psychoanalyst, by Remedios Varo. 1960. Oil on canvas, 70.5 by 40.5 cm. (Art Resource, New York; Scala, Florence; photograph Bob Schalkwijk; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City).
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2. Le double monde, by Francis Picabia. 1919. Oil on canvas, 132 by 85 cm. (Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; RMN-Grand Palais, Paris; photograph Georges Meguerditchian).
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3. Machine á coudre électro-sexuelle, by Óscar Domínguez. 1934–35. Oil on canvas, 100.2 by 80.8 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid).
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4. Brouette no.1, by Óscar Dominguez. c.1936. Wood, felt and satin. (© ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; RMN-Grand Palais, Paris).
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5. Attirement of the bride, by Max Ernst. 1940. Oil on canvas, 129.6 by 96.3 cm. (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice).
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6. Portrait of Max Ernst, by Leonora Carrington. c.1939. Oil on canvas, 50.3 by 26.8 cm. (© Estate of Leonora Carrington; Artists Rights Society, New York, and DACS, London; National Galleries of Scotland).
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7. Les noces (The wedding), by Wifredo Lam. 1947. Oil on canvas, 215 by 197 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Scala, Florence; bpk Bildagentur fuer Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin; photograph Joerg P. Anders).
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8. Melusine and the Great Transparents, by Kurt Seigmann. 1943. Oil on canvas, 74.3 by 61 cm. (© Orange County Citizens Foundation; © Artists Rights Society, New York, and DACS, London; Bridgeman Images; Art Institute of Chicago).
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