THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE

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Issue contents

Editorial

The arts under Obama

Articles

Karl Kraus, Oskar Kokoschka and ‘The Prometheus triptych’
by NICHOLAS BUENO DE MESQUITA

Oskar Kokoschka at work on ‘The Prometheus triptych’: unseen photographs by Lee Miller
by BARNABY WRIGHT

Oskar Schlemmer’s ‘Bauhaustreppe’, 1932: part I
by JOHN-PAUL STONARD

Stuart Davis’s painting and politics in the 1930s
by JODY PATTERSON

Stuart Davis’s ‘American painting’, 1932
by MARIEA CAUDILL DENNISON

Kandinsky: recent exhibitions and publications
by CHRISTOPHER SHORT

 

Art History Reviewed

Heinrich Wölfflin’s ‘Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe’, 1915
by DAVID SUMMERS



Book reviews

The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold, A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court,
A. de Schryver
by CATHERINE REYNOLDS

The Origins of American Photography, 1839–1885: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, K.F. Davis

The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900, M. Kozloff
by ROBERT SILBERMAN

Dada’s Women, R. Hemus
by ROBERT RADFORD

Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, A. Boyajian and M. Rutkoski, eds.
by DAVID ANFAM

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, L. Roscoe Hartigan

Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars, K. Hoving
by JAMES BOADEN

Henry Moore: Werk – Theorie – Wirkung, C. Lichtenstern
by DANIEL F. HERRMANN

Exhibition reviews

Blake in London
by MARTIN BUTLIN

Alexander Calder
by PATRICK ELLIOTT

Charles the Bold
by CATHERINE REYNOLDS

John Flaxman
by ECKART MARCHAND

Mazzoni and Begarelli
by ANNE LEADER

Raphael and Urbino
by MARIA RITA SILVESTRELLI

Granet and Von Rohden
by F. CARLO SCHMID

Dan Graham
by JAMES BOADEN

Unearthing the truth
by TOM JARDWICK

Cézanne and Beyond
by CATHERINE CRAFT

Several Silences
by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD

Calendar

In next month's issue

Fra Angelico as miniature painter
The Mantegna exhibition held in Paris earlier this year
Titian’s ‘Triumph of love’ acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Art History Reviewed III: Roger Fry’s ‘Cézanne’