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‘A gallery in the mind’? William Hazlitt, Edmund Spenser and the Old Masters
This essay explores the associations made by William Hazlitt between the work of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and paintings …
Critical Dilation: How William Hazlitt Judged Paintings
For William Hazlitt paintings become politically charged when their self-contained worlds make us aware of our creative potential for renewing …
‘Truth of Character from Truth of Feeling’: William Hazlitt, ‘Gusto’ and the Linguistic History of Writing on Art
Adapting and applying speech act theories of language use, this paper offers a new understanding of the innovative import of …
Commitment and Desire in Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: three 2013
This article examines Sharon Hayes’s video work Ricerche: three 2013 and the way it represents and mediates the often-painful psychic …
The Aesthetics of Collaboration: Complicity and Conversion at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies
This essay uses new archival sources to reconstruct the aesthetics – and ethics – of collaboration at Gyorgy Kepes’s Center …
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 …
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 …
‘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 …
The Fall of Anarchy : Politics and Anatomy in an Enigmatic Painting by J.M.W. Turner
The subject of Turner’s mysterious unfinished painting, known today as Death on a Pale Horse, is a problem that …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
‘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 …
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 …
‘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, …
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 …