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Exhibition Review
Postmodernism. London and Rovereto
12/2011 | 1305 | 153
Pages: 834-835
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Reviewer:
Harrod, Tanya (Harrod, Tanya)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Rovereto / London / Italy / England
print:
Post-Modern
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Post-Modern / Conceptual art / Design / Architecture / Art market
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990 | institution: MART , institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. Photograph of One off shop, design and production studio, by Ron Arad. 1984. Mixed media, dimensions variable. (Exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
62. The Titanic, by Stanley Tigerman. 1978. Photo­montage on paper, 28 by 35.7 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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63. Casablanca sideboard, by Ettore Sottsass. 1981. Plastic laminate over fibreboard, 230 by 161 by 39 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Bedford Lemere & Co. London
09/2011 | 1302 | 153
Pages: 619-620
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Reviewer:
Kidd, Alex (Kidd, Alex)
Subjects
artists:
Bedford Lemere & Co.
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
print:
Bedford Lemere & Co.
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Architectural photography
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Recording the New: the Architectural Photography of Bedford Lemere & Co. | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
74. Music Room, Thornton Manor, Heswall. Photographed by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1903. (Bedford Lemere & Co. collection, English Heritage National Monuments Records; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
75. Lots Road Power Station, London. Photographed by Bedford Lemere & Co. 1905. (Bedford Lemere & Co. collection, English Heritage National Monuments Records; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
South African photography. London
07/2011 | 1300 | 153
Pages: 491-492
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
print:
Photography
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Photography / Photographs / South African
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
58. Refugees from Zimbabwe sheltering in the Central Methodist Church on Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, 22nd March 2009, by David Goldblatt. 2009. Gelatin-silver print, 47 by 58 cm. (Goodman Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
59. The black president, from the series The parliament, by Kudzanai Chiurai. 2009. Pigment print on cotton rag paper, 150.5 by 100 cm. (Goodman Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg; exh. Victoria and Albert Mus­eum, London).
Attributed works:
60. Pieter and Maryna Vermeulen with Timana Phosiwa, from the series Messina/Musina, by Pieter Hugo. 2006. C-type print, 170 by 136 cm. (Courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town, and Yossi Milo, New York; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
The Cult of Beauty. London, Paris and San Francisco
06/2011 | 1299 | 153
Pages: 419-421
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Reviewer:
Lepine, Ayla (Lepine, Ayla)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019 / 1860-1869 / 1870-1909
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / de Young Museum, San Francisco, United States
places:
United States / San Francisco / Paris / France / London / England
print:
Aesthetic Movement
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Cultural history / Aesthetic Movement / British painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860–1900 | institution: de Young Museum , institution: Musée d'Orsay , institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Louise Jopling, by John Everett Millais. 1879. Canvas, 125 by 76 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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55. Laus Veneris, by Edward Burne-Jones. 1873–78. Canvas, 122 by 183 cm. (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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56. The peacock frieze, by Albert Moore. 1872–73. Charcoal and white chalk on paper, 55.5 by 192 cm. (including frame). (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Raphael's tapestry designs. London
11/2010 | 1292 | 152
Pages: 758-759
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Reviewer:
Mulherron, Jamie (Mulherron, Jamie)
Subjects
artists:
Raphael
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
print:
Raphael
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Tapestries / Cartoons (working drawings)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. Christ’s charge to Peter. From a ten-piece set of tapestries of the Acts of the Apostles, designed by Raphael in 1515 and woven in the workshop of, or on behalf of, Pieter van Aelst in Brussels. 1516–17. Wool, silk and gilt-metal-wrapped thread, 490 by 640 cm. (Vatican Museums, Vatican City; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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67. Christ’s charge to Peter, by Raphael and assistants. 1515–16. Bodycolour over charcoal underdrawing on paper mounted on canvas, 343 by 532 cm. (Royal Collection; on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
05/2010 | 1286 | 152
Pages: 321-324
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Reviewer:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Subjects
buildings:
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
dates:
2010-2019 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1799
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States
places:
United States / New Haven / London / England
print:
Walpole, Horace, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
print:
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Collections, Private / Collectors / Facsimiles / Catalogues
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum , institution: Yale Center for British Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
31. Portrait of Horace Walpole, by Rosalba Carriera. c.1741. Pastel on paper, 61 by 46.5 cm. (Houghton Hall, Norfolk; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
32. Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, from the South, by Johann Heinrich Müntz. c.1755–59. Canvas, 61.9 by 74.3 cm. (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, New Haven; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
34. Commode, by Pierre Eloy Langlois. 1763. Chinese lacquer, English japanning and other woods, with ormolu mounts and marble veneer top, 88.6 by 59.7 cm. (Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
33. Ewer, ‘Saint-Porchaire’. French, c.1545–60. White-bodied earthenware, inlaid and glazed, 34.6 cm. high. (National Mus­eum of Scotland, Edinburgh; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Article
The Baroque exhibition in London
06/2009 | 1275 | 151
Pages: 367-371
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Author:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Subjects
dates:
1620-1629 / 1630-1639 / 1640-1649 / 1650-1749 / 1750-1799 / 2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
print:
Baroque
subjects:
Exhibitions / Baroque / Decorative arts / Furniture / Reviews / Loan of works of art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Baroque 1620–1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
11. Cabinet, by Domenico Cucci. Gobelins workshop, Paris, 1679–83. Pine and oak veneered with ebony, set with pietra dura plaques and gilt-bronze mounts; stand of carved, gilded and painted wood, 299 by 196 by 65 cm. (Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
13. Equestrian statue of Louis XIV, by François Girardon. c.1695. Bronze, 102 by 98 by 50 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
14. Incense boat and spoon, by Leandro Gagliardi. 1750. Silver gilt, boat: 20 by 18 cm.; spoon: 13 cm. (Chapel of St John the Baptist, São Roque, Lisbon; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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15. Reliquary of the Cradle of Christ, by Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli, Cosimo Merlini the Younger and the Florentine Grand-ducal workshops after Giovanni Battista Foggini. 1697. Pietre dure, rock crystal and silver gilt, 26.5 by 20 by 15 cm. (Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
16. Ostrich egg cup. Dresden, 1734. Metalwork by Benjamin Herfurth; porcelain by Johann Joachim Kändler. Ostrich egg with enamelled porcelain, gold and silver mounts, 42.6 by 13.5 cm. (Grünes Gewölbe, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
12. Screen for the Council Room of Batavia Fort, made by Chinese and/or Dutch craftsmen in Indonesia. c.1700–20. Teak, carved, painted and gilded, 297 by 231 by 60 cm. (Museum Sejarah, Jakarta; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Cold War Modern. London
02/2009 | 1271 | 151
Pages: 113-114
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Reviewer:
Hughes, Henry Meyric (Hughes, Henry Meyric)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England / Soviet Union / United States
print:
Design
print:
Cold War
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Cold War / Architecture / Models (representations) / Design / Modernism
subjects:
Communism
subjects:
Capitalism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Cold War Modern. Design 1945-1970 | institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
37. Jested telecommunications tower and hotel, Liberec, by Karel Hubácek. 1968–73. Photograph. (Jiri Jiroutec, exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
38. Chair, by Ray and Charles Eames. c.1950. Grey moulded shell with rope-edges, swivel mechanism and dowel legs. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Western art unattributed:
36. Vice-President Richard Nixon with USSR First Secretary Nikita Khruschev during the 'kitchen debate' at the American National Exhibition, Moscow. 1959. Photograph. (Exh. Victoria and Albert Museum).
Exhibition Review
Thomas Hope. London and New York
06/2008 | 1263 | 150
Pages: 422-423
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Reviewer:
Bird, Rufus (Bird, Rufus)
Subjects
artists:
Hope, Thomas, 1769-1831
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York, United States
places:
England / London / New York / United States
print:
Hope, Thomas, 1769-1831
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Thomas Hope: Regency Designer | institution: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture , institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
63. Thomas Hope, by William Beechey. 1798. Canvas, 221.6 by 168.9 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
64. The Egyptian Room at Duchess Street, London, as partially recreated in the installation of the exhibition Thomas Hope: Regency Designer at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2008.
Attributed works:
65. Steps to the Theatre of the Arts, by William Henry Bartlett and Penry Williams. 1825–26. Watercolour, 20.6 by 27.9 cm. (Archives Department, London Borough of Lambeth; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
66. The Aurora Room at Duchess Street, London, as partially recreated in the installation of the exhibition Thomas Hope: Regency Designer at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2008.
Exhibition Review
Lee Miller. Philadelphia
03/2008 | 1260 | 150
Pages: 212-213
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Reviewer:
Cardinal, Roger (Cardinal, Roger)
Subjects
artists:
Miller, Lee
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States / Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
places:
United States / San Francisco / Paris / Philadelphia / London / France / England
print:
Miller, Lee
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art of Lee Miller | institution: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume , institution: Philadelphia Museum of Art , institution: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , institution: Victoria and Albert Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
66. Bombs bursting on the Cité d’Aleth, Saint-Malo, by Lee Miller. 1944. Gelatin silver print, 12 by 12.8 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Attributed works:
67. SS prison guard found floating in canal, Dachau, Germany, by Lee Miller. 1945. Gelatin silver print, 15.8 by 15.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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