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July 2021

Vol. 163 | No. 1420

Art in Britain

Editorial

Crossing borders

Published last month, the fourth issue of the journal on our Burlington Contemporary digital platform is the first to have a theme – Art from Latin America. Like each of the preceding issues, its contents were submitted in response to a call for articles and so their subjects, which range from Surrealism in Mexico to indigenous art in Paraguay, could not have been predicted. 

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Under the Open Sky: Travelling with Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter

On 2nd December 1911 Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter declared their departure from from the New Artists’ Association (Neue Künstlervereinigung) in Munich because Kandinsky in particular felt insufficiently valued by the group. 

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    A second Paston prospective rediscovered

    By Stephen Lloyd,Simon Jervis
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    From Dolly to Dorrit: William Powell Frith’s scenes from Dickens

    By Mark Bills
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    The ‘Heads of the People’ in the ‘Graphic’ (1875–83): further influences and legacies

    By Samuel Shaw
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    Laura Knight on display: book jackets and self-promotion in the 1920s

    By Sally Beazley-Long
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    Richard II’s broomcod collar in the Wilton Diptych: a new identification of the flowers and their significance

    By Dillian Gordon
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    Socles and settings: Roubiliac’s busts of George II and Viscount Ligonier

    By Malcolm Baker,Jonathan Marsden
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    A design for the mystery of Freemasonry

    By Sarah Medlam
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    The sitter in Copley’s ‘Portrait of a lady’ in the Wadsworth Atheneum identified

    By Susan J. Rawles