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Book Review
Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
04/2021 | 1417 | 163
Pages: 381-382
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Reviewer:
Fehrmann, Antje (Fehrmann, Antje)
Subjects
subjects:
Medieval sculpture / Funerary art / Marriage / Hands (body componenents) / Commemorative monuments / Tomb sculpture
subjects:
Effigies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture By Jessica Barker. 354 pp. incl. 33 col. + 63 b. & w. ills. (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2020),  50. ISBN 978–1–78327–271–6. | :
Exhibition Review
Charles White: A Retrospective. Museum of Modern Art, New York
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 968-970
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Reviewer:
Hylton, Richard (Hylton, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
White, Charles, 1918-1978 / Marshall, Kerry James
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Prints / Photographs / Book covers / Lithographs
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States / Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States
places:
United States / New York / Chicago / Los Angeles
subjects:
American painting (United States of America) / Politics / Social history / Social realism / Expressionism / Allegory / Hands (body componenents) / Magazines (periodicals) / Murals / Archives / African Americans / Slavery / Slave trade
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Paul Robeson (Study for Contribution of the negro to democracy in America), by Charles White. 1942–43. Carbon pencil over charcoal, with additions and corrections in white gouache, border in Wolff crayon, on cream drawing board, 63.2 by 48.4 cm. (Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ; © The Charles White Archives; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
23. Awaken from the unknowing, by Charles White. 1961. Compressed brown and grey vine charcoal with scratching out, blending and erasing on cold-pressed illustration board, 78.7 by 142.2 cm. (Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; © The Charles White Archives; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
24. Wanted poster series #17, by Charles White. 1971. Oil wash and pencil on poster board, 152.4 by 76.2 cm. (Flint Institute of Arts, Flint MI; © The Charles White Archives; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Article
Hands and Feet in Indian Art
01/1914 | 130 | 24
Pages: 204-207+211
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Author:
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Coomaraswamy, Ananda K.; Coomaraswamy, Ananda; C., A. K.; Coomaraswamy, A. K.; Coomaraswamy, A. R.; Coomaraswamy, Ananda R.)
Subjects
places:
India
subjects:
Gesture / Mudras / Hands (body componenents) / Feet (body components) / Iconography / Sculpture / Indian
subjects:
Sources / Buddhist / Yoga
subjects:
Indian sculpture
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A. Hands of a Buddhist image, in abhaya and vara mudrā. Copper. Perhaps about 14th century. Author's collection. Hands and Feet in Indian Art
Non-western art unattributed:
B. Hand of an image of Buddha, in vitarka mudrā. Copper. 6th century. Buddhavānī, Madras Presidency. British Museum. C. Hand of a Bodhisattva holding a vessel of amrita (nectar of life). Slate. Gandhara; 1st-2nd century A. D. Collection of Mme. Michel. D. Hand of an image of Tārā (Buddhist saviouress). Nepalese. about 16th century. Collection of Hon. Maharajah of Cossim Bazar. E, F. Feet of an image of Natarāja (Siva as Lord of the Dance) Copper. Anurādhapura, Ceylon; about 8th-10th century. Colombo Museum. Hands and Feet in Indian Art
Non-western art unattributed:
Figure 14. Dancer, Ajanta painting 6th-7th century. Traced by Babu Samarendranath Gupta.
Non-western art unattributed:
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9. Hands from Jain and Hindu images in the Madras Museum. From sketches by Mr. S. Hadaway. Originals 10th-17th century. Figure 5. Hand of a Bodhisattva, holding a rosary. Copper. Java, anterior to 14th century. Collection of M. Alphonse Kann. Figure 7. Hand from a rock painting of the 5th century at Sigiriya, Ceylon. Traced from a photograph of a copy in the Colombo Museum. Figures 8, 11, 12, 13. Hands and feet from Ajanta paintings, 6th-7th century. Traced by Babu Samarendranath Gupta. Figure 10. Hand from a fragment of a Rajput painting (Jaipur) of the 18th century, author's collection.