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Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture

12/2020 | 1413 | 162

Pages: 1095-1097

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Reviewer:

Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)

Subjects

museums and institutions:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States

places:

North America / Central America / South America

subjects:

Humboldt, Alexander von / Enlightenment / Environmental protection / Slavery / Colonialism / American art / Hudson River School (art movement) / Travel accounts / Social history

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Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture By Eleanor Jones Harvey. 448 pp. incl. 215 col. + 22 b. & w. ills. (Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, and Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ and Oxford, 2020), £62. ISBN 978–0–691–20080–4. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

13. Alexander von Humboldt, by Friedrich Georg Weitsch. 1806. Oil on canvas, 126 by 92.5 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington).

Attributed works:

14. Géographie des plantes équinoxiales, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. 1805. Handcoloured print, 61 by 91.4 cm. (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; exh. Smithsonian, American Art Museum, Washington).

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15. Heart of the Andes, by Frederic Edwin Church. 1859. Oil on canvas, 168 by 302.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington).

Book Review

Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950–1980. By Kelly Baum with Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 806

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Reviewer:

Choi, Yoojin (Choi, Yoojin)

Subjects

art literature:

Krauss, Rosalind E.

artists:

Beckett, Samuel / Artaud, Antonin / Spero, Nancy / Paik, Nam June / Bogat, Regina / Gego / Fahlström, Öyvind

dates:

1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979

media:

Paintings / Sculpture / Installations (visual works) / Performance art

museums and institutions:

Met Breuer, New York, United States

places:

United States / New York / North America / Europe

subjects:

Psychoanalysis / World War (1939-1945) / Capitalism / Cold War / Culture / Art theory

Publication Received

Face and Mask: A Double History. By Hans Belting

07/2018 | 1384 | 160

Pages: 614

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Reviewer:

Carrier, David (Carrier, David)

Subjects

media:

Masks / Paintings / Photographs

places:

Europe / North America

subjects:

Portraits / Self-portraits / Death masks / Philosophy

Article

Benjamin West's 'Indian Family'

12/1983 | 969 | 125

Pages: 726+728-733

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Author:

Honour, Hugh (Honour, Hugh)

Subjects

artists:

West, Benjamin

dates:

1750-1799

places:

England / United States / North America

subjects:

American painting (United States of America) / Family portraits

subjects:

Native American (North American)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

5. Indian Family, by Benjamin West. 1761. 60 by 48 cm. (The Trustees of the Hunterian Collection and the President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London).

Attributed works:

6. Frontispiece to Storia degli stabilimenti europei in America, Venice [1763], by Francesco Bartolozzi after Benjamin West. Engraving, 17.5 by 11.5 cm. (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence).

Book Review

Letters of Roger Fry

01/1973 | 838 | 115

Pages: 50-51

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Reviewer:

Bell, Quentin (Bell, Quentin)

Subjects

art literature:

Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.)

artists:

Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.)

dates:

1900-1949

places:

England / North America

subjects:

Correspondence / Biographies

subjects:

Art critics / Critical Reception

subjects:

Omega Workshops

subjects:

British painting

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Letters of Roger Fry | author: Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) , author: Sutton, Denys

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