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Exhibition Review
But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 185–187
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Reviewer:
Loreti, Silvia (Loreti, Silvia)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
subjects:
Surrealism / Politics / Fascism / Communism / Manifestoes
Reviewed Items
subjects:
But Live Here? No Thanks: Surrealism and Anti-Fascism Lenbachhaus, Munich 15th October 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1211-1212
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Reviewer:
Pieri, Giuliana (Pieri, Giuliana)
Subjects
subjects:
Politics / Portraiture / Fascism / Iconography / Mussolini, Benito / Hitler, Adolf / Photography / Film (cinema)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power Edited by Luciano Cheles and Alessandro Giacone. 368 pp. incl. 200 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, Abingdon, 2020), £120. ISBN 978–1–138–05423–3. | :
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Benito Mussolini promoting the ‘Battle for Grain’ in Aprilia. 1938. Postcard.
Exhibition Review
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance. Modern 2, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 351-353
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Reviewer:
Thompson, Susannah (Thompson, Susannah)
Subjects
artists:
Rego, Paula
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Great Britain / Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Great Britain / Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
subjects:
Feminism / Politics / Gender / Fantasy / Fascism / Figurative art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Manifesto (for a lost cause), by Paula Rego. 1965. Acrylic, crayon, graphite and paper glued on canvas, 183 by 152 cm. (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Modern Collection, Lisbon;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
27. Untitled no.4, by Paula Rego. 1998. Pastel on paper, 110 by 100 cm. (Private collection;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Attributed works:
28. Painting him out, by Paula Rego. 2011. Pastel on paper mounted on aluminium, 119.4 by 179.7 cm. (Private collection;   Paula Rego, courtesy of Marlborough, New York and London; exh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh).
Book Review
Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Francoist Spain. By Paula Barreiro López
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1076
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Reviewer:
Tusell García, Genoveva (Tusell García, Genoveva)
Subjects
art literature:
Restany, Pierre / Argan, Giulio Carlo
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
media:
Paintings / Books
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Art criticism / Criticism / Cultural history / Writings / Exhibitions / Biennials / Competitions / Aesthetics / Abstract art / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939) / Cold War / Politics / Fascism / Marxism / Avant-garde
Exhibition Review
Joan Miró: Sculptures 1928–1982. Centro Botín, Santander
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 786-788
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Reviewer:
Watkins, Nicholas (Watkins, Nicholas)
Subjects
artists:
Miró, Joan / Piano, Renzo / luis vidal + architects / Llorens Artigas, Josep / Gardy-Artigas, Joan
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Sculpture / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
places:
Spain / Santander
subjects:
Spanish sculpture / Spanish architecture / Art museums / Neo-classicism / Fascism / Figurative art / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Paleolithic / Casts (sculpture) / Patina / Polychromy
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The Centro Botín, Santander, photographed from the Pareda Gardens, June 2017. (Photograph Belen de Beneto).
Attributed works:
20. Souvenir de la Tour Eiffel, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 334 by 54 by 80 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
Attributed works:
21. Personnage et oiseau, by Joan Miró, cast by Fundicío Parellada, Barcelona. Bronze, 104 by 63 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Centro Botín, Santander).
Exhibition Review
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Britain, London
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 788-790
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Nevinson, C. R. W. / Picasso, Pablo / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Beckmann, Max / Braque, Georges / Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959 / Lehmbruck, Wilhelm / Ernst, Max / Barlach, Ernst / Nash, Paul / Orpen, William / Spencer, Stanley / Mare, André / Grosz, George / Tonks, Henry
artists:
Lenk, Franz / Jouve, Paul / Birkle, Albert / Branson, Clive
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Sculpture / Photographs / Videos / Documents / Pastels / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Tate Britain, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Politics / War Artists / Collections, Public / Archives / Diaries / Correspondence / Soldiers / Nazism / Fascism / Class / Futurism / Abstract art / Figurative art / Neo-classicism / Military art and science / Destruction / Dada / Surrealism / Ruins / War memorials / British painting / French painting / German painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. The floating one, by Ernst Barlach. 1927, cast 1987. Bronze, 213 by 74 by 68 cm. (SchleswigHolsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
23. Grey day, by George Grosz. 1921. Canvas, 115 by 80 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Attributed works:
24. Wire, by Paul Nash. 1918–19. Watercolour, chalk and ink on paper, 48.6 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).
Book Review
Du bist Faust: Goethe’s Drama in der Kunst. Edited by Roger Diederen and Thorsten Valk
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 802-803
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
art literature:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
artists:
Gounod, Charles / Delacroix, Eugène / Cameron, Julia Margaret / Mapplethorpe, Robert / Fürhofer, Philipp / Naeke, Gustav Heinrich / Alix, Yves / Carus, Carl Gustav / Krafft, Johann Peter / Max, Gabriel / Scheffer, Ary / Domínguez Sánchez, Manuel / Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal Adolphe Jean / Kollwitz, Käthe / Kiefer, Anselm / Falero, Luis Ricardo / Thierry, J. D. / Beckmann, Max
dates:
1800-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings / Sculpture / Photographs / Art objects
museums and institutions:
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
places:
Germany / Munich
subjects:
Faust / Theatre (discipline) / Theatre design / Politics / Nationalism / World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Holocaust (1939-1945) / Nazism / Fascism / Opera / Occultism / Eroticism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Faust and Margaret in the garden, by Ary Scheffer. 1846. Panel, 216.5 by 135 cm. (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).
Book Review
Waldemar-George, critique d’art. Cinq portraits pour un siècle paradoxal. Essai et anthologie. By Yves Chevrefils Desbiolles
10/2017 | 1375 | 159
Pages: 829
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Reviewer:
Luse, Emilie Anne-Yvonne (Luse, Emilie Anne-Yvonne)
Subjects
subjects:
Waldemar-George, Jerzy / Aesthetics / Politics / Modernism / Fascism
Article
Fascist spoils: gifts to Mussolini
06/2015 | 1347 | 157
Pages: 407-413
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Author:
Versari, Maria Elena (Versari, Maria Elena)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Mussolini, Benito
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949
subjects:
Fascism / Politics / Propaganda / Collections, Private / Art objects / Stolen works of art / World War (1939-1945) / Italian
subjects:
Inventories / Lost works / Gifts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Antonietta (Sophia Loren) and Gabriele (Marcello Mastroianni) in a scene from Una Giornata Particolare, by Ettore Scola. 1977.
Attributed works:
37. Embroidered portrait of Mussolini, by Maria Puccini Pucci (Archivio di Stato, Forlì)
Attributed works:
38. Photographic portrait of Mussolini, by Amerigo Petitti, autographed and dated by Mussolini, 18th May 1931 (Courtesy MyMilitaria.it)
Western art unattributed:
31. The Rocca delle Caminate. c.1927 (Biblioteca Comunale di Forlì, Raccolte Piancastelli)
Western art unattributed:
32. A British soldier inspects a painting in the Rocca delle Caminate. About November 1944 (Imperial War Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
33. The room of Fascist memorabilia in the Rocca delle Caminate. c.1933-40. (Biblioteca Comunale di Forlì, Archivio Fotografico)
Western art unattributed:
34. Interior of the Casa d'Arte Tato in Bologna; on the wall the painting The March on Rome, by Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni). c.1924. Photograph (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
Western art unattributed:
35. Envelope of the letter accompanying Chiang Kai-shek's gift of the Yuan Shikai vases to Mussolini (Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome)
Western art unattributed:
36. 'Are you crying out for patriotism with your arms crossed? You scoundrel!', poster in the album donated to Mussolini by the Istituto di Propaganda Italiana, c.1925 (Archivio di Stato, Forlì)
Article
Picasso, a political enemy of Francoist Spain
03/2013 | 1320 | 155
Pages: 167-172
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Author:
Tusell García, Genoveva (Tusell García, Genoveva)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
subjects:
Politics / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939) / Collections, Public / Communism / Fascism / Spanish / Propaganda / Exhibitions
works:
Guernica (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Woman in blue, by Pablo Picasso (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)
Attributed works:
25. Horse's head: study for Guernica, by Pablo Picasso (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)
Attributed works:
26. Mother with dead child (I) postscript for Guernica, by Pablo Picasso (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid)
Western art unattributed:
22. Police record of Pablo Picasso, 7th December 1944. (Archivo Histórico Nacional, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Madrid)
Western art unattributed:
23. Police record of Pablo Picasso (Archivo Histórico Nacional, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Madrid)
Western art unattributed:
24. Police record of Pablo Picasso, 9th October 1951. (Archivo Histórico Nacional, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Madrid)
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