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Book Review
Matisse: The Books
02/2021 | 1415 | 163
Pages: 189-190
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Reviewer:
Whitfield, Sarah (Whitfield, Sarah; Whitfield, Mrs)
Subjects
artists:
Matisse, Henri
subjects:
Artists' books / Illustrated books / Poetry / Politics / French art
subjects:
Second World War
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Matisse: The Books By Louise Rogers Lalaurie. 319 pp. incl. 237 col. + b. & w. ills. (Thames and Hudson, London and New York, 2020), £60. ISBN 978–0–500– 02168–2. | :
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Attributed works:
8. From Jazz, by Henri Matisse. 1947. Published by Tériade, Paris. Unbound book with colour stencils on Arches paper and lithographed text, 42.5 by 33 by 3.5 cm. (© Succession H. Matisse / DACS 2020; photograph Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
08/2019 | 1397 | 161
Pages: 666-669
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Reviewer:
Diebold, William (Diebold, William)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
subjects:
Medieval art / Bestiaries / Illuminated manuscripts / Animals / Christian iconography / Secular / Contemporary art / Artists' books
subjects:
Allegory
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Opposite 2. Lion from the Rothschild Pentateuch. 1296. Parchment, 28 by 21 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, MS 116, f.32v).
Western art unattributed:
3. Lions from a bestiary. c.1250. Parchment, 29 by 20 cm. (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley764, f.2v; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Western art unattributed:
Below 1. Pelican feeding her young. c.1500. Tapestry, 65 by 233 cm. (Kloster Lüne, Lüne; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Exhibition Review
Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE, PORTRAIT, STILL LIFE. London
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 666-669
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Reviewer:
Paterson, Dominic (Paterson, Dominic)
Subjects
artists:
Dean, Tacita / Twombly, Cy / Morandi, Giorgio / Merz, Mario / Cunningham, Merce / Cage, John / Oldenburg, Claes / Hockney, David / Mehretu, Julie / Hilliard, Nicholas / Demand, Thomas / Horn, Roni / Tillmans, Wolfgang / Barbari, Jacopo de' / John, Gwen / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Nash, Paul
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Videos / Photographs / Prints / Drawings / Documents / Books / Paintings
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain / National Portrait Gallery, London, Great Britain / Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Landscapes (visual works) / Portraits / Still lifes / Studios (work spaces) / Artists' books / Actors and actresses / Curators / Clouds / Birds / John the Baptist, Saint / Oedipus / Antigone / Blind (people) / Poetry / Sublime
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Still from Mario Merz, by Tacita Dean. 2002. 16mm. colour film. (Courtesy the artist; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of GAETA (fifty photographs plus one), by Tacita Dean. 2015. Photographs and cibachromes. Dimensions variable. (Courtesy the artist; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Still from His Picture in Little, by Tacita Dean. 2017. 35mm. colour anamorphic film, reduced to spherical 16mm. for exhibition as miniature. (Courtesy the artist; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. Still from Antigone, by Tacita Dean. 2018. Two synchronised 35mm. colour anamorphic films. (Courtesy the artist; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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
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)
Book Review
The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn. The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up, K. Kurczynski
10/2015 | 1351 | 157
Pages: 715
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Reviewer:
Brøns, Helle Anita (Brøns, Helle Anita)
Subjects
artists:
Jorn, Asger
subjects:
Danish painting / Avant-garde / Art theory / Artists' writings / Artists' books / Cobra Group / Situationist / Abstract Expressionism
Publication Received
Crossing over. By John Stezaker
09/2015 | 1350 | 157
Pages: 641
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Reviewer:
Barratt, Martha (Barratt, Martha)
Subjects
artists:
Stezaker, John
subjects:
Artists' books / Postcards / Fragments
subjects:
Collages
Publication Received
More Sky. By Otto Piene, with a preface by Udo Kittelman and Joachim Jäger.
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 766
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Piene, Otto
dates:
1970-1979
subjects:
Artists' books / Reprints / Manifestoes / German painting
subjects:
Artists' writings
Article
A rediscovered text for a drawing book by Odoardo Fialetti
01/2014 | 1330 | 156
Pages: 12-18
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Author:
Greist, Alexandra (Greist, Alexandra)
Subjects
artists:
Fialetti, Odoardo
dates:
1590-1609
museums and institutions:
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
subjects:
Illustrated books / Sketchbooks / Books / Book illustrations / Published illustrations / Artists' writings / Artists' books / Art theory / Collections, Public / Manuals / Physiognomy
subjects:
Italian
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Title-page of Tutte le parti del corpo humano diviso in piu pezzi, by Odoardo Fialetti. c.1608. Etching, 10.3 by 14.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
22. Title-page of Il vero modo et ordine per dissegnar tutte le parti et membra del corpo humano, by Odoardo Fialetti. c.1608. Etching, 10.3 by 14.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
23. Introduction to Tutte le parti del corpo humano diviso in piu pezzi, by Odoardo Fialetti. c.1608. Letterpress, 15 by 20 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
24. Studies of noses from Tutte le parti del corpo humano diviso in piu pezzi, by Odoardo Fialetti. c.1608. Etching, 10.3 by 14.8 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
25. Studies of ears from Tutte le parti del corpo humano diviso in piu pezzi, by Odoardo Fialetti. c.1608. Etching, 10.3 by 14.8 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
26. Six heads of men in profile with triangles from Tutte le parti del corpo humano diviso in piu pezzi, by Odoardo Fialetti. c.1608. Etching, 10.3 by 14.8 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
27. Studies of two eyes, two ears and two lower portions of the face, in pairs, one in outline, by Luca Ciamberlano. c.1609-14. Engraving, 16.7 by 11.6 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Artists’ Magazines. An Alternative Pace for Art
10/2011 | 1303 | 153
Pages: 681-682
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Reviewer:
Bradnock, Lucy (Bradnock, Lucy)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1959 / 1960-1979 / 1980-1989
print:
Artists' magazines
subjects:
Artists' magazines
subjects:
Artists' books / Artists' writings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Artists’ Magazines. An Alternative Pace for Art | author: Allen, Gwen
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