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A Belated ‘Breakthrough’ to Abstraction
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 …
Transforming Collections Information at Tate: The Case for an Embedded, Artist-Directed and Object-Centred Ethos
Public art institutions in the United Kingdom have been critiqued for emphasising socio-political interpretations of Black and brown artists’ works …
William Hazlitt’s Account of ‘Mr Angerstein’s Collection of Pictures’
Hazlitt’s account of the Angerstein Collection was published anonymously in 1822, two years before Lord Liverpool purchased thirty-eight pictures from …
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 …
‘New Ways of Modern Bohemia’: Edward Burra in London, Paris, Marseilles and Harlem: Rothenstein Lecture
Paying close attention to Edward Burra’s letters, scrapbooks and other archival material, Andrew Stephenson reveals the impact that the cosmopolitan …
‘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, …
The Painting
Emerson’s Evolution
British photographer Peter Henry Emerson’s dramatic recantation of his beliefs about photography and art forms a canonical yet perplexing episode …
‘More Impact than the Venice Biennale’: Demarco, Beuys and Strategy: Get Arts
In this essay Christian Weikop closely examines primary source correspondence and press material from the Richard Demarco Archive at the …
Frank Bowling: Material Explorations
This paper establishes a technical art history of the paintings of Frank Bowling and chronicles materials and techniques used by …
‘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 …
‘Not Incorrect and Particularly Not Irrelevant’: Joseph Beuys and Henning Christiansen, 1966–71
Between 1966 and 1971, Danish composer Henning Christiansen (1932–2008) appeared in eight of Joseph Beuys’s actions. This article examines the …
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 …
Where Theory Belongs: Four Ways to Experience a Seminar in Contemporary Art
Exploring how the format of the seminar as used in contemporary art education is developing, and the social, economic and …
From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism
Socialist Realism represented the dominant creative method of China’s revolutionary era, yet critical histories of the practice are limited. This …
‘No Mercenary Views’? °ä´Ç²Ô²õ³Ù²¹²ú±ô±ð’s English Landscape
°ä´Ç²Ô²õ³Ù²¹²ú±ô±ð’s English Landscape 1830–2, a set of twenty-two mezzotints by David Lucas after paintings by the artist, has generally been …
The Making of a Triptych: The Annunciation and Adoration of the Magi 1861 by Edward Burne-Jones
This paper examines Edward Burne-Jones’s commission to make an altarpiece for St Paul’s church, Brighton. For this, his first major …
‘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 …
Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party
The Italian Communist artist Renato Guttuso found in Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica a language with which to confront the violence …