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Exhibition Review
Joris-Karl Huysmans: De Degas à Grünewald
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 705-708
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Reviewer:
Ward-Jackson, Philip (Ward-Jackson, Philip; Ward-Jackson, Phillip; Jackson, Philip Ward; Ward-Jackon, Philip)
Subjects
art literature:
Huysmans, J. K. / Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Moreau, Gustave / Caillebotte, Gustave / Degas, Edgar / Pelez, Fernand / Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
museums and institutions:
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France / Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
subjects:
Art criticism / Writings / French art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Joris-Karl Huysmans: De Degas à Grünewald Edited by Stéphane Guégan and André Guyaux. 228 pp. incl. 91 col. + 12 b. & w. ills. (Musée d’Orsay and Gallimard, Paris, 2019), £45. ISBN 978–2–07–286560–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
16. Galatea, by Gustave Moreau. c.1880. Oil on panel, 85.5 by 66 cm. (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; courtesy Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg).
Attributed works:
17. Death of Emperor Commodus, by Fernand Pelez. 1879. Oil on canvas, 58 by 37.5 cm. (Petit Palais, Paris; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
18. Parquet scrapers, by Gustave Caillebotte. 1875. Oil on canvas, 102 by 147 cm. (Musee d’Orsay, Paris; courtesy Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg).
Exhibition Review
The Decorated Word: Writing and Picturing in Islamic Calligraphy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 860-863
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Reviewer:
Balbale, Abigail (Balbale, Abigail)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Koran / Manuscripts / Coins / Sculpture / Ceramics / Carpets / Paintings
styles:
Islamic art
subjects:
Calligraphy / Figurative art / Muslim / Writings / Religious art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Untitled, by Golnaz Fathi. 2013. Acrylic, pen and varnish on canvas. Two panels, 100 by 140 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
12. Bifolium from a Qur’an with a star-shaped prostration mark. Egypt or Syria, 13th century. Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 50.8 by 67.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
13. Calligraphic galleon with the names of the Seven Sleepers, by ‘Abd al-Qadir Hisari. 1180 AH/ AD 1766–67. Ink and gold on paper, 48.3 by 43.2 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet. By Thomas Dilworth
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 95-96
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Reviewer:
James, Merlin (James, Merlin; James, Merlin Ingli; Ingli James, Merlin; J., M.)
Subjects
artists:
Jones, David, 1895-1974
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Paintings
patrons:
Sutherland, Helen / Clark, Kenneth
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Poetry / Artists' writings / Psychology / World War (1914-1918) / Catholicism / Patronage / Competitions / Biographies / Writings / Interviews
Book Review
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form. By Allison Morehead
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 94-95
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Reviewer:
Thomson, Belinda (Thomson, Belinda)
Subjects
art literature:
Germain, Alphonse / Zola, Emile / Poe, Edgar Allan
artists:
Denis, Maurice / Vuillard, Edouard / Strindberg, August / Munch, Edvard / Bonnard, Pierre
dates:
1850-1899 / 1900-1949 / 1890-1899 / 1890-1899 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings / Drawings
places:
Europe
subjects:
French painting / Norwegian / Swedish painting / Symbolist movement / Art theory / Science / Psychology / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Children's art / Outsider art / Writings / Literature / Translations / Nudes / Landscapes (visual works) / Dreams / Disease
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Study for Décor, by Maurice Denis. c.1890–91. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 31.2 by 24.7 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Avant-garde Art and Criticism in Francoist Spain. By Paula Barreiro López
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1076
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Reviewer:
Tusell García, Genoveva (Tusell García, Genoveva)
Subjects
art literature:
Restany, Pierre / Argan, Giulio Carlo
dates:
1900-1949 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1999 / 1950-1959 / 1960-1969 / 1970-1979
media:
Paintings / Books
places:
Spain
subjects:
Spanish painting / Art criticism / Criticism / Cultural history / Writings / Exhibitions / Biennials / Competitions / Aesthetics / Abstract art / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939) / Cold War / Politics / Fascism / Marxism / Avant-garde
Book Review
Dans l’oeil du connaisseur: Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) et la construction des savoirs en histoire de l’art. By Valérie Kobi
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1072-1073
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Reviewer:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin (Vogtherr, Christoph Martin)
Subjects
art literature:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, collector and art critic, 1694-1774
artists:
Bouchardon, Edmé
dates:
1700-1799
media:
Books
patrons:
Eugene Francis of Savoy, Prince of Savoy-Carignan, 1663-1736
places:
France
subjects:
Art criticism / Criticism / Art history / Collections / Collecting / Connoisseurship / Catalogues / Illustrated books / Correspondence / Aesthetics / Courts (social groups) / Travel / Collaborators / Dictionaries / Writings
Book Review
The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp. By Elena Filipovic
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 612-613
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Reviewer:
Walsh, Taylor (Walsh, Taylor)
Subjects
art literature:
Roché, Henri-Pierre
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Art objects / Documents / Displays / Installations (visual works)
places:
France / United States
subjects:
Curators / Publishers / Art dealers / Critical Reception / Artists' magazines / Artists' groups and associations / Dada / Surrealism / Eroticism / Archives / Monographs / Notebooks / Writings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Boîte-en-valise, by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy. Brown leather valise with handle containing sixty-nine miniature replicas and printed reproductions and one original, Virgin (No. 2), 1938, hand-coloured collotype. 1935–41 (box); 1938 (collotype). The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; photograph Art Resource, NY).
Book Review
Carrington’s Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships. By Dora Carrington, edited by Anne Chisholm
06/2018 | 1383 | 160
Pages: 523-524
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Reviewer:
Skipwith, Peyton (Skipwith, Peyton)
Subjects
art literature:
Shone, Richard, (R. S.), London, Great Britain / Woolf, Virginia / Strachey, Lytton / Maynard Keynes, John / Morrell, Ottoline
artists:
Carrington, Dora / Gertler, Mark / Lamb, Henry
dates:
1900-1909 / 1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939
media:
Documents / Drawings / Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Correspondence / Diaries / Writings / Bloomsbury Group
Article
The Art of Conservation XI. Mary Merrifield’s quest: a new methodology for technical art history
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 465-475
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Author:
Veliz, Zahira (Veliz, Zahira; Véliz Bomford, Zahira; Veliz, Z.)
Subjects
art literature:
Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia
dates:
1840-1849 / 1850-1899
subjects:
Conservation / Restoration (process) / Techniques / Technical analysis / Art historians / Manuscripts / Transcriptions / Pigments / Scientific analysis / Methodology
subjects:
Writings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
23. Key to the Picture of the Meeting of the Fine Arts Commission 1846, by George Scharf. 1872 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
24. Title page of A Practical Treatise on Painting in Fresco, Oil & Distemper. By Cennino Cennini, edited by Giuseppe Tambroni, translated and annotated by Mary P. Merrifield, London 1844 (National Gallery Library, London, NG Tech.Lib.75.02 CEN)
Attributed works:
25. A page from Mary Philadelphia Merrifield's copybook of letters (East Sussex Record Office, The Keep, Brighton)
Attributed works:
26. The family of Darius before Alexander, by Paolo Veronese. 1565-67 (National Gallery, London)
Attributed works:
27. Portrait of Felice Schiavoni, by Natale Schiavone. c.1825 (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice)
Attributed works:
28. St Sebastian, by Titian. 1570 (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
Attributed works:
29. St Mary Magdalene, by Titian. 1565 (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
Attributed works:
30. Sporochinus comosus, by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield. 1870-80 (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)
Western art unattributed:
22. Mary Philadelphia Merrifield. c.1870 (East Sussex Record Office, The Keep, Brighton)
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