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Exhibition Review
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 270–73
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Reviewer:
Antille, Diane (Antille, Diane)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
British Library, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Medieval / Social history / Visual culture / Women / Literature / Illuminated manuscripts / Documents
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subjects:
Medieval Women: In Their Own Words British Library, London 25th October 2024–2nd March 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Building the City of Ladies, from Livre de la Cité des Dames, by Christine de Pizan. 1410–c.1414. Ink and pigment on parchment, 36.5 by 28.5 cm. (British Library, London, Harley MS 4431/2, f.290r).
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8. Birthing girdle. England, early 15th century. Ink and pigment on two pieces of parchment stitched together, 122 by 8.5 cm. (British Library, London, Harley Roll T.11).
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9. Bas-de-page illustration of women bringing in the harvest, from the Luttrell Psalter. Lincolnshire, 1325–40. Ink and pigment on parchment, 35 by 24.5 cm. (British Library, London, Add MS 42130, f.172v).
Exhibition Review
Africa & Byzantium
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 182–184
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Reviewer:
Barber, Charles (Barber, Charles)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
styles:
Ethiopian School / Coptic art / Syrian / Armenian / Arabian
subjects:
Africa / Byzantine Empire / Visual culture / Manuscripts / Icons / Ceramics / Textiles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Africa & Byzantium Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 19th November 2023–3rd March 2024 | :
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Pentaglot Psalter. 12th– 14th century, restored and rebound 1636. Ink on parchment, 36.8 by 28 cm. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, MS Barberini or.2, fol.3r; Bridgeman Images; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Textile fragment with Artemis and Actaeon(?). 5th–7th century. Linen and wool, 147.3 by 183 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Diptych with St George and the Virgin Eleousa. c.1500 (left) and c.1480– 90 (right). Tempera and gold on wood, open: 12.2 by 20 cm. (Private collection; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1241-1243
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
subjects:
Modern art / Contemporary art / Art theory / Visual culture
subjects:
Copies / Reproductions / Photography / Sculpture / Installations (visual works) / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 By James Meyer, with contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, Hillel Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith and Andrew Solomon. 288 pp. incl. 140 col. + 60 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022), £52. ISBN 978–0–691–23617–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, by Walker Evans. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 24.3 by 19.2 cm. (Private collection).
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8. After Walker Evans: 4, by Sherrie Levine. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 12.8 by 9.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Stills from Left side / right side, by Joan Jonas. 1972. Black-and-white video, duration 8 minutes 50 seconds. (Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York).
Editorial
Ukraine’s cultural casualties
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 639-640
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Author:
Akinsha, Konstantin (Akinsha, Konstantin)
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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
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 771-772
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Reviewer:
Korda, Andrea (Korda, Andrea )
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artists:
Gogh, Vincent van
subjects:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain / Prints / Published illustrations / Visual sources / Dutch art / British art / Visual culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints By Vincent Alessi. 234 pp. incl. 10 col. + 40 b. & w. ills. (Monash University Publishing, Clayton, 2020), £30.99. ISBN 978–1–925495–73–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. The poor and money, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Chalk, watercolour and pen and ink on paper, 37.9 by 56.6 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
Book Review
Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 468-469
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Reviewer:
Dempsey, Charles (Dempsey, Charles)
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artists:
Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Piero di Cosimo / Pollaiolo, Antonio del / Uccello, Paolo / Leonardo da Vinci / Michelangelo
subjects:
Florentine art / Renaissance art / Violence / Visual culture / Poetry
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subjects:
Art and Violence in Early Renaissance Florence By Scott Nethersole. 320 pp. incl. 233 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018),  65. ISBN 978–0–300–23351–3. | :
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Attributed works:
2. Battle of the naked men, by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. c.1470–90. Engraving, 38.4 by 58.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 1004-1006
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Reviewer:
Jackall, Yuriko (Jackall, Yuriko)
Subjects
art literature:
Conferences
subjects:
Fantasy / Visual culture / Paintings / Literature / Gardens
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture Edited by Melissa Percival and Muriel Adrien. 325 pp. incl. 69 col. + b. & w. ills. (Voltaire Foundation with Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2020), £65. ISBN 978–1–789–62003–0. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. A Venetian courtesan, by John Faber II after Philippe Mercier. Engraving, 32.7 by 22.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard. By Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 454-456
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Colin B. (Bailey, Colin B.; Bailey, Colin)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
subjects:
French art / Enlightenment / Visual culture / Culture / Philosophy / Art market
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Painter’s Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard By Ewa Lajer-Burcharth. 312 pp. incl. 154 col. + 104 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2018),  54. ISBN 978–0–691–17012–1. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Dead hare with powder flask and game bag, by Jean Baptiste Sim on Chardin. c.1726–30. Oil on canvas, 98 by 77 cm. (Mus e du Louvre, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination. By Kate Flint
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 363-364
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Reviewer:
Moran, Fiontán (Moran, Fiontán)
Subjects
artists:
Brassaï / Weegee / Cartier-Bresson, Henri / Sugimoto, Hiroshi
artists:
Parks, Gordon / Edgerton, Harold Eugene
subjects:
Photography / Cultural history / Techniques / Literature / Visual culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination By Kate Flint. 416 pp. incl. 145 col. ills. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017),  25. ISBN 978–0–19–880826–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Bobby Jones with a driver, by Harold Eugene Edgerton. 1938. Gelatin silver print, 24.4 by 29.2 cm. (Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Exhibition Review
Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 256-257
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Reviewer:
Tobin, Amy (Tobin, Amy)
Subjects
artists:
Seyrig, Delphine
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
subjects:
Feminism / Politics / Film (cinema) / Videos / Visual culture
subjects:
French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Still from Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais. 1961 (exh. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid).
Attributed works:
31. Still from Calamity Jane and Delphine Seyrig: A Story, directed by Babette Mangolte. 1990 (exh. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid).
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