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Book Review
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 294
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Reviewer:
Nethersole, Scott (Nethersole, Scott)
Subjects
art literature:
Essays
subjects:
Renaissance art / Globalism
subjects:
Art history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art Edited by Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras. 732 pp. incl. 38 col. + 136 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London and New York, 2024), £230. ISBN 978–1–03–226158–4. | :
Book Review
Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 534–535
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
subjects:
Dutch art / East-West trade / Colonialism / Slavery / Dutch architecture / Globalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Trade, Globalization, and Dutch Art and Architecture: Interrogating Dutchness and the Golden Age By Marsely L. Kehoe. 244 pp. incl. 8 col. + 67 b. & w. ills. (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), €124. ISBN 978–94–6372–363–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Still life with a turkey pie, by Pieter Claesz. 1627. Oil on panel, 76.5 by 135 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Exhibition Review
Surrealism Beyond Borders
06/2022 | 1431 | 164
Pages: 592-594
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Reviewer:
Richardson, Michael (Richardson, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Dalí, Salvador / Magritte, René / Ernst, Max / Duchamp, Marcel / Chirico, Giorgio de / Joans, Ted / El Janaby, Abdul Kader / Yayoi Kusama, b. 1929 / Rosenstein, Erna
dates:
1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1940-1959 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Surrealism / Globalism / Politics / Postcolonialism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Surrealism Beyond Borders Tate Modern, London 24th February–29th August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. A circus rider’s dream, by Yayoi Kusama. 1955. Gouache on paper, 74.9 by 64.5 cm. (Private collection; © Yayoi Kusama; courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London and Venice; photograph Elisabeth Bernstein; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Attributed works:
2. The seven sons of Lautréamont (and his dutiful beautiful daughter), by Ted Joans, Heriberto Cogollo, Agustin Cárdenas, Jorge Camacho, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Hervé Télémaque and Joyce Mansour. 1970–79. Ink on paper with poem, 76.2 by 21.6 cm. (Private collection; © Ted Joans Estate; courtesy Laura Corsiglia; photograph Buddy Ratner; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Attributed works:
3. Ekrany (screens), by Erna Rosenstein. 1951. Oil on canvas, 48 by 64 cm. (© Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Book Review
Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1117-1118
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Reviewer:
Brown, Peter (Brown, Peter)
Subjects
subjects:
Art history / Cultural history / Globalism / Contemporary art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization By David Joselit. 344 pp. incl. 82 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, 2020), £32. ISBN 978–0–262–04369–4. | :
Exhibition Review
Mika Rottenberg. Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1063-1065
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Reviewer:
Caiger-Smith, Martin (Caiger-Smith, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Rottenberg, Mika, b. 1976 / Craig-Martin, Michael / Barney, Matthew / Assemble (art collective)
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Sculpture / Videos / Installations (visual works)
museums and institutions:
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain / Goldsmiths' College School of Art, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Art schools / Art galleries / Universities / University museums / Young British Artists / Competitions / Commissions / Globalism / Capitalism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
30. Cosmic Generator, by Mika Rottenberg. 2017. Video and sculptural installation, dimensions variable. (© Mika Rottenberg; courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris; exh. Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London).
Attributed works:
31. Installation view of Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 8th September–4th November 2018. (Photograph Andy Keate; courtesy the artist).
Attributed works:
32. Installation view of Mika Rottenberg at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, 8th September–4th November 2018. (Photograph Andy Keate; courtesy the artist).
Attributed works:
33. Project space, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London. 2018. (Photograph courtesy Assemble).
Publication Received
The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics. Edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall and Andrew Yip
11/2018 | 1388 | 160
Pages: 986-987
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Reviewer:
Thomas, Sarah (Thomas, Sarah)
Subjects
art literature:
Smith, Bernard
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Paintings / Prints / Drawings
places:
Australia
subjects:
Art historians / Art critics / Collectors / Politics / Cultural history / Anthropology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Social history / Globalism / Art theory / Visual culture / Science
Book Review
The Société des Trois in the Nineteenth Century: The Translocal Artistic Union of Whistler, Fantin-Latour, and Legros. By Melissa Berry
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 803
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Reviewer:
Wilcox, Timothy (Wilcox, Timothy; Wilcox, Tim)
Subjects
artists:
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill / Fantin-Latour, Henri / Legros, Alphonse / Doig, Peter / Delacroix, Eugène / Courbet, Gustave
dates:
1850-1899
media:
Paintings
places:
Great Britain / London / France / Paris
subjects:
French painting / American painting (United States of America) / Globalism / Salons (art exhibitions) / Artists' groups and associations / Travel / Critical Reception / Group portraits / Portraits / Landscapes (visual works) / Identification
Exhibition Review
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. Guggenheim Bilbao
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 793-795
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Reviewer:
Teo, Wenny (Teo, Wenny)
Subjects
art literature:
Foster, Hal
artists:
Gehry, Frank / Yongping, Huang / Xu, Bing / Sun, Yuan / Peng, Yu / Koons, Jeff / Wright, Frank Lloyd / Lin, Yilin / Chen, Shaoxiong / Xu, Tan / Yan, Lei / Hong, Hao / Zhen, Chen, b. 1955
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Architecture / Installations (visual works) / Sculpture / Videos
museums and institutions:
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York / Spain / Bilbao / China
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Capitalism / Globalism / Animals / Censorship / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. Precipitous parturition, by Chen Zhen. Rubber bicycle inner tubes, aluminium and plastic toy cars, metal, fragments of bicycles, silicone and paint, length c.20 m. (Pinault Collection, Venice).
Attributed works:
32. Installation view showing Theater of the world (1993; diameter 160 cm.) and The bridge (1995; length 12 m.), by Huang Yong Ping at Guggenheim Bilbao. 2018. (Courtesy the artist).
Publication Received
The Global Work of Art: World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience. By Caroline A. Jones
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 710
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Reviewer:
Altshuler, Bruce (Altshuler, Bruce)
Subjects
art literature:
Szeemann, Harald / Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
artists:
Sehgal, Tino, b. 1976 / Powers, Hiram
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1999 / 2000-2009 / 2010-2019
media:
Displays / Installations (visual works) / Performance art / Sculpture
subjects:
Exhibitions / Biennials / World's fairs / Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy / Globalism
Book Review
Painted in Mexico, 1700–1760: Pinxit Mexici. Edited by Ilona Katzew
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 607-608
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Juárez , Juan Rodríguez / Juárez, Nicolás Rodríguez / Magón, José Joaquín / Morlete Ruiz, Juan Patricio / Vallejo, Francisco Antonio / Ibarra, José de / Torres, Antonio de
dates:
1700-1799
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
House of Bourbon
places:
Mexico / Mexico City / United States / Los Angeles / New York
subjects:
Mexican painting / Exhibition catalogues / Patronage / Style / Academies / Treatises / Jesuits / Globalism / Gender / Race / Politics / Iconography / Portraits / Self-portraits / Allegories / Caravaggism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico, by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz. 1770. Canvas, 96.8 by 151 cm. (National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta).