After Impressionism: Inventing
Modern Art
By MaryAnne Stevens, with contributions by
Maria Alambritis, Julien Domercq, Charlotte
de Mille, John Milner, Daniel Sobrino Ralston,
Christopher Riopelle, Camilla Smith and Sabine
Wieber. 272 pp. incl. 150 col. ills. (National
Gallery Global, London, 2023) £20.
ISBN 978–1–85709–695–8. |
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Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art
By Duncan Macmillan. 256 pp. incl. 100 col. + 25
b. & w. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2023),
£50. ISBN 978–1–84822–633–3. |
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Book Review
Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists
Writing After Art: Essays on
Modern and Contemporary Artists
By Richard Shiff. 696 pp. incl. 64 col. ills.
(David Zwirner Books, New York, 2023),
£40. ISBN 978–1–64423–048–0. |
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Piranesi and the Modern Age
By Victor Plahte Tschudi. 288 pp.
incl. 81 col. + 25 b. & w. ills. (MIT
Press, Cambridge MA, 2022),
$49.95. ISBN 978–0–262–04717–3. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. The Gothic
arch (pl.XIV
from Carceri
d’invenzione), by
Giovanni Battista
Piranesi. c.1749–
50. Etching and
engraving, 49.4
by 63.8 cm.
(Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Attributed works:
5. Kerensky
ascending
the Jordan
Staircase, still
from October:
Ten Days that
Shook the
World, directed
by Sergei M.
Eisenstein, 1927.
Attributed works:
6. The
drawbridge (pl.
VII from Carceri
d’invenzione), by
Giovanni Battista
Piranesi. Early
1770s. Etching
with engraving,
54.2 by 40.6 cm.
(Royal Academy
of Arts, London).
Book Review
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
The Double: Identity and
Difference in Art since 1900
By James Meyer, with contributions by
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, Hillel
Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith and
Andrew Solomon. 288 pp. incl. 140 col. +
60 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press
and National Gallery of Art, Washington,
2022), £52. ISBN 978–0–691–23617–9. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Allie Mae
Burroughs,
Hale County,
Alabama, by
Walker Evans.
1936. Gelatin
silver print,
24.3 by 19.2
cm. (Private
collection).
Attributed works:
8. After Walker
Evans: 4, by
Sherrie Levine.
1981. Gelatin
silver print,
12.8 by 9.8 cm.
(Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Attributed works:
9. Stills from
Left side / right
side, by Joan
Jonas. 1972.
Black-and-white
video, duration
8 minutes
50 seconds.
(Courtesy
Electronic Arts
Intermix, New
York).
Book Review
Modern Art for a Modern China: The Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930
Modern Art for a Modern China: The
Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930
By Yiyan Wang. 202 pp. incl. 19 b. & w. ills.
(Routledge, London and New York, 2020),
£120. ISBN 978–0–367–31271–8. |
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Book Review
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde
Collecting in Midcentury L.A.
By Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman and Ellen
Hoobler. 448 pp. incl. 103 col. + 227 b. & w. ills.
(Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2020), 50.
ISBN 978–1–60606–666–9. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Photograph of the dining room at 7065
Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, showing works
by Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp
and Paul Klee among others, c.January 1951,
by Floyd Faxon. (Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Library and Archives, Arensberg Archives).
1. Hester Diamond, photographed in her apartment in the El Dorado
building, New York City, 2008. Behind her is The Vestal Virgin
Tuccia as an allegory of chastity, by Moretto da Brescia. c.1540–44.
(Photograph Jason Schmidt).
Exhibition Review
Millet and Modern Art: From Van Gogh to Dalí. Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis
Millet and Modern Art: From Van
Gogh to Dal
Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis
16th February–17th May |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. Archaeological
reminiscences of
Millet’s Angelus,
by Salvador Dalí.
c.1934. Oil on
panel, 31.8 by 39.4
cm. (Dalí Museum,
St Petersburg FL;
exh. Saint Louis
Art Museum).
Attributed works:
22. In the
rice fields, by
Angelo Morbilli.
1901. Canvas,
182.9 by 130.2
cm. (Private
collection; exh.
Saint Louis