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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 …
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 …
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 …
The Three Dancers 1925 by Pablo Picasso
Devastated by the death of a friend in 1925, Picasso painted this ‘dance’ of intertwined sinister figures, the story and …
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair 1932 by Pablo Picasso
This sensual portrait of Picasso’s lover Marie-Thérèse Walter was painted at the artist’s Normandy estate in 1932. Picasso dated this …
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 …
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. …
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 …
‘Men thinking, and women tranquil’: John Gibson’s Portraiture Practice
The sculptor John Gibson was a vocal critic of the genre of portraiture, and pitched his reputation around his classical …
Via della Fontanella 4: John Gibson’s Workshop in Rome
The studio of John Gibson was one of the largest workshops in Rome during the artist’s lifetime, serving as both …
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 …
Socially Engaged Art and Affective Pedagogy: A Study in Inter-Faith Understanding
This essay examines a contemporary arts project that was designed to increase understanding of different beliefs between children from a …
Documentation and the Information of Art
This article outlines a documentary approach to the study of artistic practice, focusing on the ways in which information is …
Museum Studies as Critical Praxis: Developing an Active Approach to Teaching, Research and Practice
This article argues that museum studies as an academic discipline needs to take a more active approach to effecting change …
Developing the Practitioner-Researcher Within the Art Museum
This paper sets out to explore how research functions in the art museum, and whether our understanding of research and …
Diffractive Analysis: Embodied Encounters in Contemporary Artistic Video Practice
This paper details how diffractive analysis, a practice-based research methodology combining methods from art practice, art history and cultural studies, …
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 …
The Upper Room : A Study of Materials and Stability
Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room 1999–2002 consists of thirteen paintings displayed within a specially designed and carefully lit room. This …