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Letter
The Ukraine Art Aid Centre
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 492
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Contributor:
Nathan, Johannes (Nathan, Johannes)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Ukraine Art Aid Center
places:
Ukraine
subjects:
Cultural property / Museums / War / Destruction / Commemorative monuments / Buildings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. A plundered exhibition in the Kherson Regional History Museum after the retreat of the Russian army, November 2022. (Kherson Regional History Museum; photograph Valeriia Nikolaeva).
Book Review
The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism after the Second World War
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 575-576
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Reviewer:
Huebner, Karla (Huebner, Karla)
Subjects
subjects:
Surrealism / War / Women artists / German art / Swiss art / Austrian art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism after the Second World War By Patricia Allmer. 280 pp. incl. numerous ills. (Manchester University Press, 2022), £80. ISBN 978–1–5261–4979–4 | :
Editorial
Ukraine’s cultural casualties
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 639-640
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Author:
Akinsha, Konstantin (Akinsha, Konstantin)
Subjects
places:
Ukraine
subjects:
War / Violence / Stolen works of art / Visual culture / Unesco / Architecture / Collections, Public / Art museums / Museums
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Palace of Labour, Kharkiv, designed by Ippolit Pretro and completed in 1916, which has largely been destroyed in the Russian bombardment of the city. (Photograph Stanislav Ostrous).
Book Review
Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690–1815
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 628-630
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Reviewer:
Born, Robert (Born, Robert)
Subjects
artists:
Vanmour, Jean Baptiste
subjects:
Ottoman / House of Habsburg / Diplomacy / Gifts / War
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690–1815 By Daniel O’Quinn. 552 pp. incl. 29 col. + 11 b. & w. ills. (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2019), $75. ISBN 978–0–8122– 5060–2. | :
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Attributed works:
5. Title page of Tableau général de l’Empire Othoman, Paris 1787–1820, by Jean Baptiste Simonet after Jean Michel Moreau le jeune. c.1787. Etching, 36 by 24 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt. By Marisa Anne Bass
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 260-261
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Reviewer:
Godycki, Albert (Godycki, Albert)
Subjects
artists:
Hoefnagel, Joris (Georg)
subjects:
Flemish art / Miniatures (paintings) / Politics / Animals / War / Nature
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt By Marisa Anne Bass. 312 pp. incl. 192 col. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2019),  50. ISBN 978–0–691–17715–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Swallotail butterfly, plate VII from Animalia Rationalia et Insecta (Ignis) from the Four Elements, by Joris Hoefnagel. c.1575–80. Watercolour, gouache and gold on vellum, approx. 14.3 by 18.4 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Exhibition Review
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011. MoMA PS1, New York
02/2020 | 1403 | 162
Pages: 161-163
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Reviewer:
Slifkin, Robert (Slifkin, Robert)
Subjects
artists:
Malalla, Hanna / Lawlor, Louise / Auder, Michel / Al Qadiri, Monira / Al Radi, Nuha / Al-Azzawi, Dia / Gonzáles-Torres, Felix / Al-Shammarey, Mohammed / Sturtevant, Elaine
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
MoMA PS1, New York, United States
places:
Iraq / Iran / United States
styles:
World art
subjects:
War / Violence / Politics / Propaganda
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 MoMA PS1, New York 3rd November 2019–1st March | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
28. Still from Gulf War TV War, by Michel Auder. 1991, edited 2017. Hi8 video and mini-DV transferred to digital video. 102 min. (Courtesy the artist and Martos Gallery, New York; exh. MoMA PS1, New York).
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29. The fires of Baghdad, by Kareem Risan. 2003. Ink, coloured pencil, digital printing, and collage on paper; 13 folded pages loose in cover, in slipcase 32.5 by 59 cm. (unfolded) (Azzawi Collection, London; photograph Anthony Dawton; exh. MoMA PS1, New York).
Attributed works:
30. Portrait of Zain Habboo, by Nuha Al-Radi. 1995. Painted metal canister and rock, 25.4 by 15.2 cm. (Private collection; photograph Kris Graves; exh. MoMA PS1, New York).
Book Review
Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India. By Emilia Terracciano
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 887-888
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Reviewer:
Singh Johal, Rattanamol (Singh Johal, Rattanamol)
Subjects
artists:
Mohamedi, Nasreen / Janah, Sunil / Tagore, Gaganendranath
media:
Drawings / Photographs / Watercolours / Lithographs
places:
India
subjects:
Modernism / Colonialism / War
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art and Emergency: Modernism in Twentieth-Century India By Emilia Terracciano. 304 pp. incl. 74 col. + b. & w. ills. (I.B. Tauris, London, 2017), £69. ISBN 978–1–78453–109–6. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Untitled, by Nasreen Mohamedi. c.1972. Photograph (courtesy Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; © Heirs of Nasreen Mohamedi).
Exhibition Review
Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable. Guggenheim Bilbao
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 515-517
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Reviewer:
Trigg, David M. (Trigg, David M.)
Subjects
artists:
Holzer, Jenny
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Installations (visual works)
museums and institutions:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
styles:
Kinetic / Light
subjects:
Poetry / Literature in art / Politics / Feminism / War / Violence
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. For Bilbao, by Jenny Holzer. 2019. Projection, site-specific dimensions. (Courtesy the artist).
Attributed works:
27. Installation for Bilbao, by Jenny Holzer. 1997. Electronic LED signs, 9 columns site-specific dimensions (Courtesy the artist and Guggenheim Bilbao).
Attributed works:
28. Ram, by Jenny Holzer. 2016. Threesided LED sign, RGB diodes, 14 by 762 by 14 cm. (Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth).
Book Review
Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture. Edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 518-519
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1959
subjects:
British art / Jews / War / Visual culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their Contribution to British Visual Culture Edited by Monica Bohm-Duchen. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait of a degenerate artist, by Oskar Kokoschka. 1937. Canvas, 110 by 85 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka / DACS 2018).
Exhibition Review
Don McCullin
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 339-341
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Reviewer:
Roberts, Hilary (Roberts, Hilary)
Subjects
artists:
McCullin, Don
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Photography
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
subjects:
War / Violence / Travel / Social history
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. The guv’nors in their Sunday suits, Finsbury Park, London, by Don McCullin. 1958. Gelatin silver print, 50.8 by 60.9 cm. (Courtesy the artist; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
24. Grenade thrower, Hue, Vietnam, by Don McCullin. 1968. Gelatin silver print, 49 by 61 cm. (Courtesy the artist; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
25. Woods near my house, Somerset, by Don McCullin. c.1991. Gelatin silver print, 30.7 by 41.5 cm. (Tate; exh. Tate Britain, London).
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