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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 …
The 1957 Rehang of °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s Modern British Gallery: Displaying the Contemporary ‘British School’ in the Context of John Rothenstein’s Later Career
When °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s modern British galleries reopened, refurbished and rehung, in 1957, the gallery’s Director John Rothenstein was entering the twilight …
New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age
This paper examines some the changes that digital technology has wrought upon conceptions of space, time and culture, and how …
I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours: Collaboration, Consciousness-Raising and Feminist-Influenced Art in the 1970s
This paper discusses two feminist-influenced collaborative art projects: London/LA Lab 1981 and Postal Art Event 1975–7. It reflects on how …
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 …
Performing Global African Culture and Citizenship: Major Pan-African Cultural Festivals from Dakar 1966 to FESTAC 1977
This article traces the ways in which the understanding and expression of global African culture and citizenship evolved across a …
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 …
Sugar, Salt and Curdled Milk: Millais and the Synthetic Subject
This article examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. It argues that criticism …
‘Fire and Water’: Turner and Constable in the Royal Academy, 1831
Pictures by John Constable and J.M.W. Turner hung side by side in the Royal Academy in 1831, an arrangement orchestrated …
Ethel Walker, Advocacy and Recognition in the Early Twentieth Century
Recent exhibitions have highlighted Ethel Walker’s significant role in early twentieth-century British art. This article examines Walker’s self-advocacy, the support …
Workshops and conferences
Read information about the workshops hosted by the Refiguring American Art project and abstracts from the major international conference held …
The Geometry of Syntactics, Semantics and Pragmatics: Anthony Hill’s Concrete Paintings
Between 1952 and 1956, the British artist Anthony Hill made a small number of abstract, concrete paintings before turning away …