Showing 37 results for 'J.M.W. Turner'
‘Palpable and Mute as a Globed Fruit’
This paper considers a series of fundamental problems and paradoxes in accounting for interpretation in contemporary museum encounters, and explores …
To Dispel a Great Malady: Robinson in Ruins , the Future of Landscape and the Moving Image: Art & Environment
Patrick Keiller’s film Robinson in Ruins was made as part of an AHRC project, ‘The Future of Landscape and the …
Wrestling
Sarah Victoria Turner explores the circumstances of the making of the relief and the posthumous cast of Wrestlers by Henri …
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 …
John Constable and Paul Huet: Marsh and Flood
This paper revisits a familiar episode in accounts of John Constable’s career – his reception and legacy in France. Paul …
Paintings on Canvas: Lining and Alternatives
This paper catalogues major changes in attitude during the last thirty years to conservation practice for the treatment of degraded …
John Gibson and the Anglo-Italian Sculpture Market in Rome: Letters, Sketches and Marble
John Gibson established a hugely successful sculpture studio in Rome, and despite strong reasons to return to London, such as …
John Gibson’s Friendship with Charles Eastlake and its Importance in Securing Gibson’s Reputation in London
This article traces the fifty-year friendship between John Gibson and the artist and writer Charles Eastlake. It focuses on their …
Damien Hirst’s Shark: Nature, Capitalism and the Sublime
Focusing on Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991 which contains a preserved …
Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: Two Episodes in the Artistic Approach to British Antiquity
The artistic representation of British antiquity brings in its wake a problem of methodology: how are the working assumptions of …
Mapping the Field: Lawrence Alloway’s Art Criticism-as-Information
Lawrence Alloway claimed that the art critic should avoid explicit value judgements and instead provide information. This paper historicises Alloway’s …
‘No Continuing City’: John Constable, John Britton and Views of Urban History
This article explores the place of urban subjects in works by the nineteenth-century artist John Constable, who is generally known …
Registration and Collection Management
This is one of four reports produced by researchers in the project Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the …
George Elgar Hicks’s Woman’s Mission and the Apotheosis of the Domestic
Tracing the evolution of the domestic in English cultural discourse over the first half of the nineteenth century, this paper …
American Art under John Rothenstein, 1938–64
As Director of the Tate Gallery, John Rothenstein showed a commitment to transatlantic relations and a distinctly national view of …
As Seen: Modern British Painting and Visual Experience
During the twentieth century several important British artists began to paint features of visual experience rarely ever painted before, including …