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Lives in Exchange: The Collaborative Video Tapes of Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris
In 1972 the artists Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris swapped videotapes made collaboratively in each other’s studios to create new …
Value and Audience Relationships: °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s Ticketed Exhibitions 2014–15
In this report Mariza Dima sets out the findings of a research project examining the experiential and educational value of …
‘The Whole Question of Plinths’ in Barbara Hepworth’s 1968 Tate Retrospective
In 1968 Barbara Hepworth was honoured with a significant retrospective at the Tate Gallery. This paper offers a close reading …
Meyer Schapiro, Abstract Expressionism, and the Paradox of Freedom in Art Historical Description
This article analyses a talk given by the American art historian Meyer Schapiro in 1956 that was broadcast on BBC …
Pacing the Cell: Walking and Productivity in the Work of Bruce Nauman
After graduating from art school in the late 1960s Bruce Nauman found himself pacing his studio, unsure how to produce …
Placing Bookmarks: The Institutionalisation and De-Institutionalisation of Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde and Contemporary Art
The recent interest in avant-garde art from Hungary shown by international museums such as Tate has been paralleled by transformations …
Through The Large Glass : Richard Hamilton’s Reframing of Marcel Duchamp
Combining art historical and technical perspectives, this paper examines Richard Hamilton’s
1965–6 reconstruction of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass and the …
Art & Language, Transatlanticism and Conceptual Cosmopolitanism
This essay looks at the role of transatlanticism in the early work of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, …
David Hockney’s Early Etchings: Going Transatlantic and Being British
David Hockney’s early autobiographical prints, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 1961 and the series A Rake’s Progress 1961–3, are …
‘A Wistful Dream of Far-Off Californian Glamour’: David Sylvester and the British View of American Art
David Sylvester’s criticism from the 1950s and 1960s combined enthusiasm for the vitality of new American art with ambivalence about …
Emerson’s Evolution
British photographer Peter Henry Emerson’s dramatic recantation of his beliefs about photography and art forms a canonical yet perplexing episode …
Joseph Pennell and the Anglo-American Construction of New York
American printmaker Joseph Pennell’s iconic New York imagery is the focus of this article, including an exploration of his efforts …
Locating Cosmopolitanism within a Trans-Atlantic Interpretive Frame: Critical Evaluation of Sargent’s Portraits and Figure Studies in Britain and the United States c.1886–1926
This article examines how John Singer Sargent’s American nationality, his Anglo-American expatriate experience and his works’ cosmopolitanism coloured the views …
‘Marx on the Wall’: Muralism and Anglo-American Exchange during the 1930s
This article explores English artists’ support for socially engaged public mural painting during the 1930s in relation to international developments, …
Between America and the Borders: William Johnstone’s Landscape Painting
Scottish artist William Johnstone lived and worked in America for periods in the 1920s and 1940s, encountering a very different …
Portrait of a Doctor c.1935–1947, by Francis Picabia
Portrait of a Doctor is actually two paintings: one was painted on top of the other at a later date. …
The Fig-Leaf 1922 by Francis Picabia
A sardonic attack on censorship and prudery, The Fig-Leaf provoked the conservative art establishment when it was exhibited in 1922. …
The Handsome Pork-Butcher c.1924–6, c.1929–35 by Francis Picabia
This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects …
°¿³Ù²¹Ã¯³Ù¾± 1930 by Francis Picabia
Picabia’s so-called ‘transparency’ paintings – of which °¿³Ù²¹Ã¯³Ù¾± is a prime example – have not been the subject of much …
Girl in a Chemise c.1905 by Pablo Picasso
Picasso transformed an earlier painting of a boy to create this profile of a slender young woman. This paper uses …